Word: whirlwinds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Subpenaed by telegraph, Salesman Bevier hotly disagreed. The C. C. C., he said, "wanted a fine quality of toilet article." Before the whirlwind finish of his Washington sales campaign he had spent a fruitless fortnight interviewing captains and colonels in the War Department. It then occurred to him, he said, that a President's Secretary would know "exactly what officials to get in contact with." He saw Mr. Howe at 3:30 the afternoon of May 15. Mr. Howe's letter did not reach Director Fechner until next day, but "before sundown" the contract, under which...
...look like ordinary seaplane floats within which are concealed wheels. By a reverse of usual practice the floats may be retracted to expose the wheels for landing. Also they can serve as skiis for landing on snow. Estimated top speed: 200 m. p. h. with a 400-h. p. Whirlwind: 290 m. p. h. with a 700-h. p. Cyclone (with floats detached and wheels fully retracted). Wing flaps will slow the ship for landing. Major de Seversky, who lost a leg in the War, proposes to enter his "universal" ship in the transcontinental Bendix Trophy race in the National...
...story concerns itself with Paul Vanderkill, whose name is also a telephone number, and Madeleine McGonegal, whom he meets in the Loveland dance hall. After a whirlwind courtship and marriage, time elapses until the birth of their child who dies at the hospital. Madeleine, very distraught, believes that Paul no longer loves her, that her last hold on him is gone, and that the only solution is to go to Mexico, where divorces are quick and quiet. There she meets Panama Kelly, of Tulsa, Oklahoma, whose perennial proposals were formerly the bane of her existence, but new are most welcome...
...That National City Bank financed its affiliate's pool operations in copper stocks. That National City Co. put on a whirlwind selling campaign in Anaconda copper in 1929, got the public to buy 1,300,000 shares at about $120 a share. Present price...
...innumerable minor trophies which, in his house at East Williston (L. I.) make a respectable glitter beside the huge silvery bonfire of the cups he inherited when his father died a year ago. Three years ago he was on the afterguard of the America's Cup contender Whirlwind, built by his friend and star boat rival Landon Thorne. Adrian Iselin, looking very foxy with his trim mustache, sharp chin and twinkling eyes, makes a habit of arriving cautiously at the dock two hours before a race to keep an eye on the weather. He wins most in light airs...