Word: pooling
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Entirely aside from such factors as courage and morale, the Russian pool of military manpower is lower in quality than that of the U.S. because the level of Russian education is lower, and the run of Russians have had less experience in handling mechanical devices, including modern mass-production machinery. The qualitative difference in manpower is even more striking on the economic front. A Soviet farmer (more than half of all Russians work in agriculture) turns out a quarter of a U.S. farmer's output, a Soviet factory worker less than a quarter of a U.S. worker...
...five days after the U.S. occupation of Berchtesgaden, a Counter-Intelligence Corps sergeant named George Allen loaded three German male stenographers into a car and drove five miles outside town to the wreckage of a Luftwaffe motor pool. There, after a search, Sergeant Allen found what he was looking for: a big hole in the ground, 20 feet wide and four feet deep, full of charred paper. He began poking around, soon plucked out a sheaf of papers that had escaped the flames. What he held in his hand, said the German stenographers, was a complete shorthand record...
...three pools provide swimming facilities for about 200 men each day according to Hob Kiphuth, Yale's swimming coach and former director of athletics. One of the three pools is an exhibition pool set in an amphitheater whose almost verticle rows of seats accommodate about 2200. A movable concert partition between the two practice pools allows adjusting of their lengths...
...Correspondent ("Thank you, Mr. President") Smith quit kicking dust over his trail. As TIME said, Smith's agreement was with his two (A.P. and I.N.S.) wire service competitors; for them there was only one pool, only one circuit...
Says A.P.'s Vaccaro: "It was Smith who suggested the pool arrangement and the copy was to be pooled all the way to San Francisco. The U.P., in clear violation of the agreement, broke in on the copy in Honolulu and telephoned the message to its San Francisco office." Says I.N.S.'s Nixon: "A.P. and I.N.S. had men in Honolulu, and could have behaved as the U.P. did -except for the ethics of it." Says Carleton Kent, president of the White House Correspondents' Association: "Merriman Smith's . . . filing the communique twice, thus holding up the stories...