Word: swarm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Through most of the 3,070 U. S. counties swarm the 95,150,000 miles of wire of A.T. & T.'s mighty Bell Telephone System. Interlacing this giant nervous system are 6,600 independent companies (lineage : some 9,200,000 miles) serving 18% of the nation's 20,820,000 telephones.* They sprang up around the turn of the century after the basic Bell patents ran out, fought A. T. & T. for breathing space, by 1914 were at peace with their corpulent competitor. Clinging to their often profitable franchises like lichens to a rock, these little fellows annually...
...Japan's Yeddo Bay, one afternoon, puffed two preposterous paddle frigates-Mississippi and Susquehanna-and two sloops-of-war-Plymouth and Saratoga. The former were the first steamships ever to appear in Japanese waters. As soon as they dropped anchor a great swarm of picket boats came out to shoo the smoke-breathing monsters away. A spokesman presented himself on one of these, demanding to see the commanding officer. Perry sent a warrant officer, who said that the "Lord of the Forbidden Interior" was of much too high rank to talk with a mere boatman...
Last week the Frankfurt radio station made Germany's first admission of her U-boat losses: 35. Unless work has progressed far more rapidly than is believed on the swarm of 150-tonners which the Nazis are reported mass-producing, the Allies have still the larger submarine fleet-but less opportunity to use it to advantage. The sending of groups of submarines, not merely isolated raiders, on the "particularly hazardous service" of raiding Helgoland Bight, revealed the Admiralty's anxiety to press the sea war home to Germany before spring comes...