Word: tailspinning
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Cuba, growing up in the ways of democracy, did not even let the nipped plot throw it into a tailspin. There were no disorders, no swarming of cops and sol diers. Instead, that night a festive crowd marched through the streets of downtown Havana, chanted and cheered outside the President's Palace. They did demand the death of Pedraza...
...investors have long taken a poor and antisocial view of the prospects of peace. Last week, once again, peace rumors sent the stockmarket into a four-day tailspin that left it three points lower than it was after the last big piece of good news-the "surrender" of Italy. Up & down Wall Street's cave of the winds went gusty rumors, each dizzier than the last. Gusts...
...whimsical honor of being Mayor of Gower Gulch. The campaign was promoted by Brewer's so that the clientele would buy more drinks. To vote, you had to write your candidate's name on a cash-register receipt. Business zoomed. But the election almost went into a tailspin when a late starter appeared. The dark horse was a locally beloved dog named Tramp. When the final votes were counted Cowboy Evans nosed out Tramp by only 26 votes...
...last spring snatched 160 airline-owned transports, put them into military service. The news: super-secret meetings had been held at the White House to plan a tremendous expansion in worldwide air routes, try to iron out some of the grave questions which have U.S. airline operators in a tailspin. Besides President Roosevelt the conferees included members of the Pacific War Council (with tall, gaunt Lord Halifax representing Britain), top-drawer officials from the State Department and the Army-Navy air-cargo divisions, a handful of U.S. airline operators, headed by smart, suave Pan American Airways President Juan Trippe...
Toast of the Town. Hospitable Logansport went into a tailspin over its newfound heroes. First they were sent to a local restaurant with a blanket order for all they could eat. The Deputy Prosecutor, Kenesaw M. Landis II (nephew of the baseball commissioner), who had questioned them, took them home with him. The Elks gave a dance in their honor. Members of the American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Elks, Eagles, Knights of Columbus and Rotary Club got together to plan a giant shindig...