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Wham-O believes that the current economic troubles may be just what is needed to give the Hula Hoop another whirl. The first introduction coincided with the 1958 recession, while the second came during the trauma of the Viet Nam War. As Shapiro explains, "Wham-O has always felt that when the world is in kind of a messy way and people are unhappy, something like the hoop lets them just forget everything while they go crazy for a minute or two spinning around...
Four corporate giants in the wildest merger whirl ever...
...matter who eventually wins the battle for Conoco, the whirl of mergers in the oil industry is likely to continue. The losers of the current campaign will still be left with billions in cash or bank credit to buy up other companies, and natural-resource firms will probably be the first targets. The struggle for petropower has barely begun...
...this just couldn't happen! I seized Venus by a hind leg in either hand and began to whirl her round and round my head. Sometimes higher, sometimes lower, but attaining a remarkable speed as I put all my strength into the swing... At last, the chest wall gave a heave and the eyes blinked...
Meanwhile, Seatrain's container freight operation was falling apart in a whirl of scandals and bad business. The firm had to pay the Government nearly $1 million in penalties for making kickbacks to shippers and about $500,000 for unpaid import duties...