Word: pooling
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Something for Senators. Bickering was fiercest over a $10 million appropriation to build the Senate a new office building with auditorium, movie projection rooms, swimming pool and garage. Roared Louisiana's Allen J. ("Little Bull") Ellender: "I say we ought to examine our consciences." New Mexico's Dennis Chavez argued plaintively that Senators' offices are overcrowded (they are), that they have no place to receive visitors. Cried Chavez: "Oh, we can vote billions of dollars without batting an eye. We can appropriate automobiles for third-class clerks in a department. But when it comes to doing something...
...sides by salt water-the Japan Sea, the Korea Strait, and the Yellow Sea (see map). It can be said to begin with a mountain, the far northern peak of Paektu (White Head), coated with glistening pumice and sheltering in its ancient crater the deep Dragon Prince's Pool...
...rebellious Madrilenos began leaving off their neckties and jackets to escape the heat, they were promptly labeled piscinista (from piscina or swimming pool). The mayor of Madrid detailed a special anti-piscinista squad of police to round them up and restore decency...
...from the Korean war. Employment reached 61,482,000 in June, said the Census Bureau, within a shade of the 1948 high, and was still rising. With unemployment close to a bottom of 3,384,000 (v. 8,300,000 in June of 1940), there was no big jobless pool to draw from for new armament orders...
...Built at a cost of %13 million Jackson does 19 knots, is the first of three new round-the-world liners which American President will have in service by May 1951 The Jackson which-has pastel-tinted interiors designed by Raymond Loewy air-conditioned staterooms and an outdoor swimming pool, can carry 204 passengers, all first class. Fare for the 100-day globe-girdling cruise...