Word: vortexed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Stocks flittered like feathers in the whirlwind. Sugar, metals, oils, chemicals, aircrafts caught the swiftest of the upward currents. In the vortex, some food stocks rose, some fell. Few behaved so wildly as Guantanamo Sugar, long unnoticed at ⅞, up to 6 (600%) on Tuesday, backdown to 3½ at week's end. Among Dow-Jones' 30 industrials could be found samples of virtually every form of windblown behavior...
...resplendent Alexandria (see cut) first goes up in an age of hansom cabs, and the theatre's great days give the authors a chance to bring back scenes from a host of famous shows, from The Easiest Way and The Pink Lady to What Price Glory? and The Vortex. Every so often the pageant is halted because the theatre is rumored dead of various causes: Roosevelt I, the automobile, the war-tax, the movies, the radio, Roosevelt...
Long Island. The shrieking vortex of the storm first hit Long Island between Babylon and Patchogue where the barometer reached an all-time low for that area, 27.95 in. At summer resorts on the long strip of sand dunes separating the ocean from Great South, Moriches and Shinnecock Bays, the hurricane swept away everything not securely anchored including all wind-measuring instruments...
...other side of the vortex, at Long Island's western end, the violence came from the north and northwest. From Huntington to Manhassett Bay on the north shore, the Long Island Sound waterfront was smashed in. On the south shore, buildings at Jones Beach were blown toward the sea instead of back into the bays. Torrential floods halted traffic and, like most of Suffolk County to the east, 95% of Nassau County (pop. 303,000) was in darkness. Brooklyn and New York City, catching the fringe of winds which registered 120 m. p. h. in some gusts, were flooded...
...better labor papers rely on Federated Press, a non-profit labor news agency. When the great 1919 steel strike broke, labor news coverage was so undependable that 32 labor editors met in Chicago and founded Federated Press. Today, from a crowded single room a block off the radical vortex, Manhattan's Union Square, Federated's News Editor Harold Coy supplies news, features, comics and New York Times'?, Wide World pictures to 145 papers. Other chief agency for labor news is independent International Labor News Service, which usually sees things...