Word: swarmed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tonnage and consequent long cruising range. Britain, well equipped with bases from which to refuel her fleets, would like to build smaller war boats, thus enabling her to pack a greater number of fighting units inside her global tonnage. This the U. S. cannot permit, fearful of a British swarm of hornet ships. Britain in turn fears what the U. S. might achieve with a sudden thrust of mammoth ships in a great battle such as Jutland...
...newsreels. The stage could not have been set more neatly. Press agents for the Quai d'Orsay, eager that the visit of King Alexander to France get wide publicity, gave the cameramen carte blanche. Eight U. S. and European newsreel crews, some with sound trucks, were allowed to swarm so close to the King and French Foreign Minister Barthou that an intruder would never have been noticed. As the automobile carrying Alexander and M. Barthou moved out of range of the sound trucks at the quay, cameramen seized portable machines and trotted after it. There they were when...
Last week, however, what most U. S. citizens consider the greatest munitions firm in the country was called to the carpet. Accompanied by a buzzing swarm of lawyers, secretaries and assistants, the three brothers du Pont, Pierre. Lammot, Irènée. with their cousin Felix, all of E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., stepped into the white marble caucus room of the Senate Office Building to give their testimony. A square-jawed fact: the du Pont company had made a profit of $250,000,000 during the War, paid 195% in dividends, and salted its winnings away...
When locusts began to swarm over the wheat fields of Argentina last fortnight, the Minister of Agriculture was ready with a plan. He proposed to pay eight centavos (2½¢) to anybody who could fill a 100-lb. sack with locusts, bring them to the Government to be soaked in gasoline and buried...
...likelihood will bring clown upon the White House and on the State Department the same tariff lobby which, like a swarm of locusts, has plagued the Capitol for generations...