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...reason for the complexity lies in the empire's swift, turbulent, helter-skelter growth. Founder Lever (Cofounder and brother James Darcy Lever reared early) couldn't resist buying up plants, setting up subsidiaries wherever he went (he circled the earth five times...
...Army has trained more than 2,000 officers (including some Navy men) for the occupation; the Navy has trained 1,100. On top priorities they jammed the transcontinental and transpacific airlines, rushing helter-skelter to a job they had not expected to take on for months...
...searching for clay perfection. Augmenting a keen sense of touch with the memories of his earlier, visual studies, he continued almost to the last of his 83 years to fashion his distinctively animated dancers and horses. He worked in semisecrecy, in perishable wax and clay, left the figures scattered helter-skelter in his Paris studio...
Constitutional changes already drafted at Algiers are enough to give postwar France a new political façade. Woman suffrage, long sought, would be granted. Prewar France's helter-skelter system of party representation in the Chamber of Deputies would be revised, with elections on a proportional basis. And the position of the Premier and his Cabinet would be strengthened; no longer would Premiers of France be hired & fired like casual help in a Christmas-week rush. All this sounded like the kind of democracy which Charles de Gaulle might gladly head...
...look, I don't mind most things, the bugles blowing in the Yard and all those guys marching around, that I can get used to. But for years now when they put out a Poon, it came out one-at-a-time, sorta easy like, none of this helter-skelter, war production stuff from the Bow Street grotto, no siree...