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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...
...over the U. S. last week Department of Agriculture agents were pushing an intensive campaign against insect pests. Catastrophic visitations like the Buffalo gnat swarm which descended on Arkansas last month (TIME, May 7) usually catch entomologists as well as farmers off guard, but against better known enemies spring surveys are conducted to find out how they survived the winter. Reports this year were far from heartening. Grasshoppers, No. 1 bane of Northwestern grain farmers, got through a mild winter in enormous numbers. Chinch bug mortality in the Midwest was only 3%. In Indiana and Kansas 93% of Hessian flies...
...wife Nicole, and their satellites. Among these expatriate Americans "promenading insouciantly upon the national prosperity" are Tommy Barban, an adventurer who has worn the uniform of many nations and is obviously in love with Nicole; Abe Martin, once a musician; the Mckisces who are writing a novel. These swarm about the Divers and gain what stability they have from them, for Nicole is not only beautiful and charming but a successful hostess of her hilltop villa and Dick Diver is handsome and gay, and claims to be the only American man with repose...