Word: vortexes
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...Chicago, Buda Co. (Diesels) is building $600,000 worth of plant additions, Bastian-Blessing (capital-goods specialties) and Sherwin-Williams (paints) are spending $500,000 apiece, Continental Can, Dixie-Vortex (paper containers) and Campbell Soup $200,000 each...
...detail, at times, almost indecently sharp-eyed and entertaining, as wholes they are poor in ratio to their seriousness, good in ratio to their snottiness. Best: misadventures of a gentle English celebrity who, lassoed into a Long Island week end of guaranteed peace & quiet, finds himself the agonized vortex of a Walpurgisnacht of corrupt artists, moneymen, scrimmaging Lesbians, carnivorous wives and dowagers. Their favorite adjective: "genuine...
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...
...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...