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...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...
...Canton-Hankow run. By November, Director Tu had three expresses going each week. Now he has one daily leaving both north and south terminals. In half a year passenger and freight (rice, relief goods, tung oil, coal) mileage has doubled. Along the right of way, at every station, aswarm with people on the move, and ashrill with vendors of rice, cabbage, noodles and pig's ears, you can see a region's economic life, however shabby and stunted by American standards, stirring out of torpor...
...Frank Buchman, sexagenarian Oxford Group leader who returned to England last spring after seven years' absence, was now reported sitting on an Alp. The perch: Switzerland's sky-high Caux. The shelter: a former luxury hotel. Buchmanites had bought it and were aswarm there for a big postwar drive. Reported one of them happily: "The people of the neighborhood seem pleased...