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...Tamanaco cost $8,500,000-half from the Venezuelan government, a quarter from local private capital and a quarter from the U.S. Export-Import Bank. For the U.S. salesmen who swarm to the booming capital, it offers comfortable rooms at $8 a day; for luxury-seeking tourists it has suites...
...German," said Berlin-born Arie Kraemer, another of the Israeli refugees, "and now I want to take things up where they were dropped in 1933. What do I have in common with those people there? I feel nothing for those Asiatic and African Jews who swarm into Israel...
...vary widely. Some are lazy, some are stupid. Some are eager beavers always looking for trouble. These "excitement centers" are the leaders of the colony. When they see a job that needs doing, they pitch in furiously. Other ants copy their activity, and the excitement spreads until a swarm of ants is busy at the job. If the eager leaders are removed from a colony, its life slows down so much that it may disintegrate...
...power plant were like those of landbound plants. Materials had to be found that would not go to pieces in a reactor's heart. New instruments were needed, and new kinds of pumps, controls, heat-exchangers and safety devices. Rickover, then a captain, worked in a swarm of difficulties, opposed by many in the Navy. But he won his battle. On May 31, Commissioner Murray, with Rickover standing beside him, opened a valve at Arco, Idaho. A shaft began turning over, and the world's first practical nuclear power plant was in successful operation...
When a new product hits a "test market" city, P. & G. trucks roll slowly down the streets while teams of men swarm in & out of houses handing out samples. Big changes in a product are often made during such test-marketing. Cheer was first put out as a white detergent. Then someone suggested that it be dyed blue and tried out. The blue not only sold much better (especially among women who used bluing in their wash), but it also supplied a catchy ad slogan: "It's new! It's blue! It's Blue Magic...