Word: aswarm
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...compared with earnings of $39,500,000 for the same period last year. On the lucrative North Atlantic run, globe-girdling Pan Am has been nosed out of first place by rival TWA. Pacific routes that once were Pan Am's alone are now aswarm with competitors. To cut its losses, Pan Am has scrapped 23 unprofitable flights in the Pacific and announced layoffs of 450 pilots and flight engineers. Said Halaby last week: "We have not reached the end of our economy campaign...
Bucharest these days is aswarm with West German, British, French and Jap anese visitors peddling such industrial tools as airplanes, chemical equipment and textile machinery. Already half of Rumania's trade is with non-Communist countries, compared with only 20% a decade ago. Rumania's industrial pro duction grew 12% in 1968, the great est increase of any country in the Eastern bloc. The expansion was more than twice as rapid as that of Czechoslovakia or Hungary, and it exceeded the U.S.S.R.'s growth rate by one third...
...sound booth, grappling with problems such as how to ceep the sympathetic strings of a sitar Tom vibrating to the twangs of a nearby banjo. What makes many talented audio engineers defect to the technical haven of the recording companies is the frustrating acoustical conditions of the TV studios. Aswarm with crewmen, performers, musicians, cameras, cables, dollies, cranes, lights and scenery, the studios are about as compatible to quality sound reproduction as the Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. would...
They have ample reason for optimism. Trucks have long been the industry's staple, but more and more Japanese have the affluence to join the 1-in-48 group with a car (as compared with the U.S. l-in-2.4 ratio). Even now, Japanese cities are aswarm with cars. Tokyo residents may not buy a car unless they can prove that they have a place to park it. In Tokyo districts already choked by industrial air pollution, traffic cops counter the effects of auto-exhaust fumes by breathing bottled oxygen kept at precinct stations. Speaking of the market-though...
Nudged along by a nervous, nosy camera, the action leapfrogs from a jostling train car to teeming streets to the gritty ambiance of a police prefecture aswarm with unseemly night people. Murder is inconsequential but steadily entertaining, the victory of seasoned professionalism over the sort of paperback-novel nonsense made to order for killing an hour or so between trains...