Word: pooling
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...superblocks. Each superblock covers a rectangle approximately 1,000 yards long and 500 yards wide. A superblock is designed to house 5,000 people, includes a central area with elementary schools, playgrounds and parks, and a shopping center. Three superblocks make up a district, with the high schools, swimming pool and auditorium for the district in the center superblock. Only footpaths, bicycle and bullock-cart paths cross the superblocks: all bus, truck and automobile traffic goes around them; for direct traffic to the capitol from outside the city, two wide highways, called greenways, run from...
...bold proposal by France's Robert Schuman to pool French and German coal & steel industries (TIME, May 22) produced a burst of hope and revived, with a fresh urgency, the ideal of Western Europe's integration. But as the West set about examining the Schuman idea a little more closely, it also made a lot of people extremely nervous...
...staterooms with sofa berths which make them convertible into daytime sitting rooms; "penthouse" apartments (living room, bedroom, two baths, two dressing rooms and private terrace); air-conditioning throughout, including the roomy quarters for the 578-man crew. There are shops, restaurants, cocktail bars, a gymnasium, nursery, theater, library, swimming pool and, to make Americans feel at home, a soda fountain. With the Independence and her twin sister Constitution, to be launched in September, American Export will offer U.S. tourists a crossing from New York to Genoa in eight days...
...meetings of the Foreign Ministers in London last fortnight were notable for launching both "total diplomacy" and specific means to that end: the Schuman plan to pool French and German heavy industry, a sensible division of military labor by which each member nation will eventually do one main defense job for all, and a unified high command for the cold war on Communism. The meeting had still another achievement, announced last week: during the talks, Messrs. Acheson, Bevin and Schuman reached their first accord on the Near East...
With Arthur Maxwell as president, D.C.C. got 60 industrial concerns and 30 banks to contribute to a cooperative credit pool of more than $500,000. By making loans to small businessmen who can't get a loan from a bank, D.C.C. hopes that it can slow down the exodus of industry from Maine, even persuade some outstate firms to come in. Not a penny of Government money has gone into D.C.C. Said Maxwell, who started in the banking business by "sweeping the floor" at the First National: "We're still rugged individualists here in Maine, and we think...