Word: whirlwind
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Archbishop of Canterbury had the time of his life in a whirlwind one-month, 10,000-mile U.S.-Canada tour, on which he visited the White House, got honorary degrees from Columbia, Princeton and the University of Pennsylvania, estimated that his public utterances had averaged 1.95 per diem. Archiepiscopal purpose: to get acquainted with the clergy of the Anglican Communion in Canada and the U.S. Canada and the U.S. also got to know something of the long-jawed, gaitered Primate. In Philadelphia, a news photographer caught him getting into his canonicals (see cut); the London Sunday Dispatch gleefully reprinted...
...Tami had been quicker on the trigger, he might have followed up his advantage. Instead, he reaped _the whirlwind. While the small (38,494) Yankee Stadium crowd was still oohing in amazement, Louis bounced off the ropes and went to work. Tami went down under a barrage of lefts and rights, got up at the count of nine, landed one more solid sock, took half a dozen in return. Then he slid slowly down the rópes and assumed the inelegant position of 20 Louis challengers before...
...publishers call this novel "the publishing find of 1946 . . . the Abie's Irish Rose of publishing." They have elaborate promotion stunts all figured out: they plan to send the author on a "whirlwind" lecture tour of 60 U.S. cities, to talk on religious tolerance under the auspices of the National Conference of Christians and Jews. They have even worked out advertising tie-ups with tobacco companies-because the book speaks favorably of smoking. They have printed 125,000 copies of the book, which they claim is the largest pre-publication printing of a first novel in publishing history...
Then he talked a group of St. Louis businessmen into financing his expansion, to a new Parks Airport across the river from St. Louis at Cahokia, Ill. He signed up 400 students after some whirlwind publicity. By the early thirties, he smartly anticipated a glut of pilots, shifted the emphasis to aviation engineering. Today Parks students still learn to fly, at the 113-acre campus-airport, but spend most of their 2½-year course (for a B.S. degree) on the ground. In World War II Parks trained 24,000 A.A.F. flyers at five schools...
...Louie De Votie Newton, 54, president of the Southern Baptist Convention, a native, resident and leader in the South, might be expected to be somewhat anti-Soviet. But last week when he came home to Atlanta from a whirlwind trip through the U.S.S.R. he was brimming with enthusiasm for what he had seen and been told. In 25 short days, the Russians had made Dr. Louie Newton a booster...