Word: exploitation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...until 1850, three centuries after the Amazon's discovery by a Spaniard, that white men sailed up it to exploit and trade in this jungle area that is twice as vast as the Mississippi basin. Few stayed. Twice the Amazon has been tapped-by the rubber boom at the turn of the century and the mad rubber hunt during World War II. The first left a high-domed opera house at Manáos and the 226-mile single-track Madeira-Mamoré Railway. The World War II boom established some of the beginnings of modern sanitation and medicine...
...nation's oldest and most respected football rivalries will be renewed today when a favored Princeton eleven will try to exploit its talents sufficiently to make Harvard its third victim of the season...
...April 1946, while Russian troops occupied Persia's northern province of Azerbaijan, Premier Ahmad Gavam notified Ivan V. Sadchikov, Russian Ambassador to Persia, that the Persian Government agreed that the two Governments should establish a joint company "to explore and exploit oil-producing territories" in northern Persia...
Lessons for Revolutionists. Negro Manning Johnson, once a party member and now a civilian employee of the U.S. Navy, came to testify. Before he deserted the Reds, because "they were trying to exploit the Negroes," Johnson was a member of the party's Trade Union Unity League, whose job it was to fight the A.F.L. He had spent three months in a Manhattan training school for revolutionists...
...teaching. "Part of the practical courses," he said, "was instruction of three months by Red Army officers in uniform, who were specialists in civil warfare, in how to take cities and the countryside." Conditions essential to revolution, as he learned them: chaos among the masses; an organization ready to exploit them...