Word: aswarm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...made progress in preventing the Syrians from slipping farther into the Soviet orbit, but the socalled "northern region" of the U.A.R. remains infiltrated by Communists to an alarming degree. An estimated 1,000 Soviet technicians, military advisers and embassy personnel are stationed in Syria; the area is aswarm with "technical" missions of bridge builders, oil surveyors and "fertilizer experts." Syria is dependent on Russia for $170 million of its $600 million development program...
Last week the biggest English-language library in any non-English-speaking country was aswarm with Parisians back in town from their annual August exodus. Started with the collection set up by the American Library Association for the doughboys of World War I, the library now has some 100,000 books, is largely supported by a paying membership of 3,000 (60% Frenchmen). The library managed to stay open during the German occupation of World War II, is now so efficient that many French graduate students prefer its accessible shelves to the musty stacks of Paris libraries. It recently provided...
...creek sand that came up in his scooped hands, the thirsty Kaka tribesman saw the glint of yellow metal. He ran home and told his wife, who returned to the creek with a shovel and an enamel basin. Within six weeks, the shores of Mboscorro Creek were aswarm with men, women and children panning gold dust. Local French authorities moved in, set up a buying agency that had instructions to pay out 170 French African francs (about 80?) for each gram of the metal as it came from the pan. The rush to cash in nearly demolished the office. Within...
Dovetail. Green River, which makes semifinished steel, neatly dovetails with Jessop's finishing plant. Last week, aswarm with plans for his new acquisition, which he will operate as a separate company, Frank Rackley was sure that by putting $3,500,000 into Green River's new plant that failed, his old plant that succeeded can make Green River start earning at least $2,000,000 a year after the new facilities are in operation. "The foundation is there," said he, "to make Green River one of the finest quality plants in the country...
...Cabinet changes. Snapped Cafe Filho: "I am the constitutional President of Brazil. I will not accept or discuss terms." The following day, after his doctors had pronounced him fit. Cafe Filho notified Congress that he was resuming office "as of this date." But by then. Rio was already aswarm with soldiers and policemen acting under Teixeira Lott's orders...