Word: exploitation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...visited Argentina on a secret mission and organized Bolivian espionage behind Paraguayan lines. Dionisio Foianini rushed to the Chaco when the war ended, persuaded Army officers that expropriating $17,000,000 worth of Standard Oil properties would be a popular political move, set up a State Petroleum Board to exploit the appropriated fields...
...seasoned professionals like Paul Kelly, Robert Armstrong and Cora Witherspoon, threaten to be embarrassing. As the story proceeds, examining Corrigan's weary scrimpings to pay for flying lessons and then for his own plane; his painfully ineffectual efforts to become a transport pilot; finally, the well-planned exploit which brought him fame, his failings as an actor become the virtues of realism. Thus, The Flying Irishman is raised from the level of a routine Hollywood quickie to that of a sincere and curiously effective cinematic document...
Versions of Saradjeff's deeds are many and the truth is swathed in legend. But it is generally agreed that his first exploit was arriving at Lowell House with the clothes he wore all the way from Moscow and no other possessions. He was put up over at the Law School and on his first trip across the campus became so thoroughly lost that a posse of ten Lowell Men took four hours to find...
...personal assets for a dictator. He explains how these handicaps can be turned into heroic myths, explains how to fight Socialism with the catch phrases of Socialism, how to provoke disorder and terror as a pretext to establish order, how to avoid all argument based on rationality, how to exploit the plentiful relics of primitive barbarism which still survive in modern man, and thus turn to Fascist account a Freudian discovery which Socialists naively underrated...
...HOLDS A CANDLE-Erh Stanley Gardner-Morrow ($2). In his second exploit, small-town District Attorney Douglas Selby finds far-flung repercussions in the apparently accidental death of an unknown hitchhiker. Good detection but the D. A. can't hold a candle to Gardner's Perry Mason...