Word: whirlings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Despite the whirl in commodities, important indices of trade failed to reveal any fundamental change-of-trend last week. But since business has usually revived after a rise in commodities, many a businessman was cheerful, prone to look ahead a month or so rather than to express dismay over current figures. Iron Age reported steel operations up to 30% of capacity after being at 29% capacity the week before. Steelmen were encouraged by the prospects of a busy automobile industry for the rest of the year, anxiously awaited the results of the year-end rail buying by the railroads. Buying...
...Preservation Committee who seemed disposed to declare the secession of Manchuria from the rest of China. Other secessionist movements were reported (by the Japanese press) in such leading Manchurian cities as Harbin and Kirin. Finally in Tokyo suave General Jiro Minami, Japanese War Minister credited with secretly ordering the whirl wind Japanese occupation of Manchuria (TIME, Sept. 28), appeared before the Japanese Cabinet last week with a sheaf of telegrams in his small, hard fist. According to General Minami, the Chinese citizens of Harbin had just plumped enthusiastically for secession of Manchuria from China, arraying themselves for this purpose under...
...Angeles and the Graf. Because her cells are filled with helium, the Akron's Maybach motors can be and are carried within the envelope, for accessibility, streamlining, speed. Each propeller-two-bladed, wooden, mounted at the end of an outrigger shaft-can be turned down to whirl in a horizontal plane (helicopter-like) as an aid to taking off and landing. (The whirling direction is reversible...
...Randolph in a voice which betokened the existence of something more substantial than the mere joy of existence, while one lone scholar was dangling a Phi Beta Kappa key out of the window while the read his notes on Semitic one squared hf. The Vagabond's head began to whirl. Such industry was not known in his days at college. He wondered what he should advice for those who were affected in the same way that he was. A shake of the head, a wiggle in the drain pipe and he had it. He would without more ado advocate...
...before the British Empire Exposition opened (TIME, Aug. 4, 1924) and colossally failed.? By contrast the awkwardly named Exposition des Arts Decor atijs at Paris in 1925 was almost a secret at the time, yet it touched off the bombshell of Modernistic Art, gave furniture and architecture a whirl that is dizzying people yet. So atrocious is French publicity that a broadside recently fired in English by the Ministry of Colonies begins with this sentence...