Word: whirling
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...Faure well knew, France is on a gaudy whirl. Its cost of living, already high, has jumped 23% in the past year. Heat and light are up 42%. Last week the Paris Opera raised its prices 17% and Parisian cab fare jumped 20%. Ministers worried whether tourists would come to so expensive a country. The French themselves worried about the spreading gap between wages and prices...
...across, Elaine met her first celebrity, young "Bertie" McCormick, later to become the famous colonel of Chicago journalism. "She's refreshing," Bertie gasped, after a whirl among the wide-open spaces of Elaine's personality. "Like a minor cyclone...
Last week, two months ahead of schedule, the Sufrin mission finished its job. It had steered clear of the social whirl which delights and hampers Madrid's official world with an average of 25 diplomatic cocktail parties a week. Finding official statistics totally unreliable, Sufrin & Co. had fanned out across the country. They hiked up the Pyrenees, Guadarrama and Cantabrian mountain ranges to have a firsthand look at hydroelectric plants. They poked underground in Asturias' and Galicia's coal pits, riding in shafts without safety devices. They visited factories, farms, fishing centers, shipyards. They talked with workers...
...Whirl. Camden's changes have only begun. By mid-1952, Du Pont will complete an additional $25 million expansion of its Orion plant (one of 20 Du Pont plants in nine Southern states), will hire about 1,900 more workers, and start Camden's spiral whirling again by paying out an additional $7,300,000 a year in wages...
...pianist's job in a Second Avenue cafe at a salary of $15 plus all the goulash he could eat. Before long he was writing tunes for his own orchestra, caught the attention of Broadway's Shuberts, who asked him to write a musical. The Whirl of the World (1913) was an immediate success, and at 26 he was already established as a full-time composer. With production-line efficiency, he turned out 78 more operettas, including The Student Prince (which once had nine road companies going simultaneously), The Desert Song, Blossom Time and The New Moon...