Word: vortexes
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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...
...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...
Noel's first Big Moment came with his first hit, The Vortex. From then on his career as playwright, actor, song-&-dance man, revue writer went from peak to peak...
...assistance being borrowed or bought, it would be given to Britain. "If one could get an extension of the Monroe Doctrine and a combination of the democracies under the Monroe System with the British Commonwealth sufficiently closely integrated so as to be invulnerable and able to stand outside the vortex of a European war, one would create a centre of stability and peace in the world which might exorcise forever the spectre of another World War!" was the way Lord Lothian put his scheme in one long sentence...
...Into the vortex of the New York Cocoa Exchange one day last week dropped a single bid for 60,000,000 Ib. of cocoa. Placed by Hershey Chocolate Corp. and amounting to nearly $6,000,000, the order brought to a sharp halt a selling swirl which had carried down the price of cocoa nearly 25% within a fortnight and forced the Exchange at one point to suspend trading. The Hershey bid, slightly under the market, was not filled, but coming from the world's largest cocoa buyer the gesture was enough...