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When he thought he knew enough about the bees' talking dance. Dr. Esch rigged up an artificial bee and stuck it in a hive to repeat a dance that had been performed by a live scout bee. At the proper moment, a tiny loudspeaker emitted the proper recorded sounds. A ring of workers followed the performance with apparent interest, and Dr. Esch hoped that they would fly out of the hive to find the nectar described by the simulated scout...
Zoologist Harald Esch of the University of Munich stumbled on the information while performing an elaborate experiment on bee dances. Prompted by curiosity, he poked a small microphone into the hive while a scout was making her dancing report. "I got the surprise of my life," he says. "Blasting out of the earphones came a loud 'thththrrrr.' followed by a short 'beep.' Then some of the worker bees flew out of the hive. I knew I had hit on something entirely...
Stirring Up the Workers. A little more observation showed that the whirring sounds were made by the scout bee just as she went into a tail-wagging dance, but two years of work were needed to translate the meaning of the new code of sound. Dr. Esch finally decided that the length of the sounds reported the distance to the nectar supply. The pitch of the sounds and the intervals between them told its quality and quantity. Made with slight nonflying movements of wings, the sounds seemed to stimulate the watching workers to fly toward the new-found food...
...Cummins had been the chairman of the Committee on Interstate Commerce since 1919. When, in 1923, his name again appeared on the list of proposed chairmen, Democrats and Progressives in the Senate roared that Cummins was the enemy of the farmer and the worker. He had sponsored the controversial Esch-Cummins law which provided for high railroad freight rates, a law that was oppressive to the small shipper. His opponents charged that Cummins was the ally of the gilded railroaders, and the farmer's foe. They maintained that Cummins' reappointment to the chair of the Interstate Commerce Commission would give...
...iron was French, the limestone Belgian, the coke came from Holland and Germany. Yet the stream of molten metal, tapped last week by Italian workmen in the Luxembourg town of Esch, was steel that belonged to Europe-solid and symbolic evidence that the Schuman Plan dream is at last reality. Six nations, producing 20% of the world's steel, would henceforth pool their outputs, eliminate tariffs, surrender control (but not ownership) of their basic industries to a supranational High Authority, headed by a dapper Frenchman who hopes to forge not merely an industrial colossus...