Word: whir
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Whiz & Whir. Harper's, like everyone else, was amazed that in the new Pullman car "you converse as you would in your parlor at home." By 1896, it somewhat sadly admitted that progress and speed were everywhere and "the hum of the trolley is in the air ... we can only have peace by moving on with the whirring, whizzing world...
...piled into their cars and drove seven miles east to a valley called Lowland. They parked bumper-to-bumper close to a limp, dirty tent which was headquarters for the picket line. From there they could see the American Enka Corp.'s Lowland plant and almost hear the whir of machines turning out rayon yarn for automobile tires. For a while, at the end of March, Local 1054 had shut down the plant with its strike, but now the machines were humming at 50-75% of capacity. Enka, a Dutch-owned company, had withdrawn its original offer, called...
Then, to the whir of the train wheels...