Word: exploitation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Though details are still unsettled, the race will be open to all comers, will be for a first prize of 1,000,000 francs ($65,000). This promptly inspired the newspaper Intransigeant to offer an aeronautical Blue Ribbon of the Atlantic, declaim: "France desires that Colonel Lindbergh's exploit shall be commemorated as an historical event." If one condition of the proposal is carried out, the commemoration may well prove a shambles. Decreed Minister Cot: The race must be flown on May 21, come hell or hurricane...
...transport of enthusiasm at a civilian exploit, Congress in 1927 broke its own rules limiting the award to military men in actual conflict with an enemy and voted the Medal of Honor to Charles Augustus Lindbergh for his flight to Paris...
...daughter (Barbara Stanwyck) of a Cuban patriot; that his principal antagonist was an international spy of in determinate nationality (Alan Hale); and that he was rescued from the clutches of the latter by a charge of General García's cavalry. Cinemaddicts less intimately acquainted with his exploit will accept these as legitimate embellishments of romanticized history. Good shot: Rowan (John Boles) and the sergeant wading through a pool full of alligators...
Shrewd enough to invent the game, James A. Naismith was not shrewd enough to exploit it. After four more years...
...President Kirkland in the first artistic landscaping undertaken in the Yard eliminated the beer barrels and the untidy wood yard, but the pump remained as a gathering place for students and an object of hilarious pranks, until 1901, when it was destroyed, an easy target for a "Med Fac" exploit...