Word: swarmed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week great Radio Corporation of America, with its swarm of subsidiaries, was fighting for its life before the Federal Radio Commission. After years of industrial supremacy this Goliath of the air had been driven back against the wall by a little David called the Radio Protective Association ("Against Radio Monopoly"). At stake were 1,403 Federal licenses whereunder RCA's National Broadcasting Co. Inc., RCA Communications Inc., Radiomarine Corp. of America and RCA-Victor Co. Inc., did business...
...defend his British Amateur championship last week. But there was a curiously neat compensation. Ready on the first tee of the Westward Ho! course at starting time was another U. S. celebrity even more famed & popular than Golfer Jones. A brownish, stocky little man, he attracted an unprecedented swarm of autograph hunters. A dozen ladies were so anxious to have their children see him play that they pushed perambulators after him over five miles of gently undulating Devonshire. British golf critics agreed that his swing was good and his manners, though slightly formal, better than those of most...
...grandest spectacles ever witnessed is to take place in the air; papers will round out a week of sweeping headlines, as the aetherial swarm completes its tour of the middle and Eastern United States. Few can realize the tremendous details of organization; even less will consider that this grand stunt is costing millions of the taxpayers' dollars, in a time of greatest depression...
...excited laughter of little children. What if their grandfather is the President of the U. S? That does not prevent him from keeping in the top right-hand drawer of his desk a glass jar of sticks of peppermint candy. . . . What if a small girl and her younger brother swarm onto their grandfather's lap and after them and onto the same lap leaps a flop-eared and gangly puppy dog while the grandfather is at breakfast? . . . The puppy dog can see and reach the presidential plate. . . . A lightning-like snip is made and a carefully fried egg, prepared...
...northern Mississippi last week first one farmer and then another found himself beclouded in a swarm of dancing, biting, infinitesimal gnats. Oldtimers, swatting at the little pests, knew that an old plague had returned, bringing irritation to man, and danger, perhaps painful death, to his beasts...