Word: whirlwind
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Reply from the Whirlwind...
...generation than any other. The world is not what we naively wish it were. Man should not have the feeling "that life owes him something . . ." When we begin to see that things no longer obey our wishes, we are matured. This is the answer of the Lord from the whirlwind...
When they advocated U.S. recognition of Communist China, its admission to the U.N., and closer relations with Communist countries generally, the 500 delegates to the Fifth World Order Study Conference of the National Council of Churches (TIME, Dec. 1) knew they would probably reap a whirlwind. By this week, the breeze of criticism was fairly stiff...
...drive for "a totally integrated producer of packaging materials," Chandler has taken Standard Packaging on a whirlwind ride of growth and acquisition, boosted sales from $24 million in 1955 to $64 million in 1958, has picked up ten companies in three years. This week he bought the eleventh: National Metallizing Corp. of Trenton, N.J., which owns a process to coat paper with metal. Chandler is convinced that the new process is cheaper than present methods of laminating foil to paper, sees a big market for his product in wrappings of all kinds, even though competitors are working on similar processes...
Last week at the LBJ Ranch, along the Pedernales River in central Texas, Johnson was enjoying the fruits of a job well done. On his antique desk (a gift from his staff) lay the evidences of his whirlwind activity, e.g., a White House-State Department request that he represent the U.S. in United Nations discussions on space problems, an urgent request that he attend the inauguration on Dec. 1 of Mexico's President-elect Adolfo Lopez Mateos. The three beige telephones on the desk rang constantly. One call came from a newly elected Western Senator thanking Johnson for campaign...