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In 1997, the company was purchased by Goodman Global (now part of Daikin North America), a heating-and-cooling manufacturer which sold it to Maytag (now part of Whirlpool) in 2002. [2] Goodman still owns Amana's air conditioner and furnace division, and Amana home appliances are now owned and manufactured by the Whirlpool Corporation . [ 3 ]
Whirlpool is a 1950 [1] [2] American film noir thriller directed by Otto Preminger and written by Ben Hecht and Andrew Solt, adapted from the 1946 novel Methinks the Lady... by Guy Endore. The film stars Gene Tierney , Richard Conte , José Ferrer and Charles Bickford , and features Constance Collier in her final film role.
Whirlpool is an independent [1] Australian website founded in 1998. Since then, it has grown significantly and has over 907,000 registered accounts. [ 2 ] Primarily a discussion forum, some extra functionality such as Broadband Choice was included, although this functionality has been removed from the site.
A whirlpool is a body of rotating water produced by opposing currents or a current running into an obstacle. [ 1 ] [ clarification needed ] Small whirlpools form when a bath or a sink is draining. More powerful ones formed in seas or oceans may be called maelstroms ( / ˈ m eɪ l s t r ɒ m , - r ə m / MAYL -strom, -strəm ).
Whirlpool received excellent notices. Jack Holt was well established as the tough-guy leading man of action pictures, while Jean Arthur was a new face just signed by Columbia Pictures . Critics noted Arthur's sincerity and sympathy, and marveled at Holt's displays of tenderness and compassion never before seen in his two-fisted melodramas.
Whirlpool was released on 29 April 1991 by Dedicated Records. [1] It spent three weeks on the UK Albums Chart, peaking at number 23. [2] " Pearl" was issued as the album's only single on 18 March 1991, [3] reaching number 67 on the UK Singles Chart.