Word: exploitation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gave us any trouble when we started gathering crowds," Alden said. When the representatives of Boston Law & Order discovered the subtle Harvard hand behind the movie-making, they grumbled, "Well you guys can be expected to do damn near anything." Then they proceeded to let Veritas alone. An earlier exploit was the shooting of a Keystone Cops scene in the Yard...
Prospectors who discover uranium will be caught immediately in the government's atomic blackout. Finds may be reported only to Canada's Atomic Energy Control Board or the Mines and Resources Department. While the government will permit a prospector to stake and exploit his claim, he may not disclose its location or existence. Maximum penalty for violation: a $10,000 fine and five years' imprisonment...
Patents Pending. General Aniline & Film Corp. offered to lease over 3,500 patents for products and processes that it does not want to exploit itself. This brought to over 43,000 the number of patents (ranging from high explosives to foldable spades and hoes) which the U.S. Office of Alien Property, owner of General Aniline, has released to U.S. businessmen...
Opposing the President places one in the uncomfortable company of the isolationists and the third party. Yet a cogent case which both of these groups reject shows that the course upon which we are asked to embark errs gravely. Now is the time to exploit our "crisis" consciousness. President Truman has used the bankruptcy of his Doctrine's failure to redouble his demands--rather than to halt in his tracks and take stock. With public opinion recognizing the crossroads nature of the moment a reorientation of United States policy can and should evolve...
...this year will be likely to disband after the election. But this hardly seems to be a sound argument for refusing a charter. In fact, none of the welter of secondary issues alters the basic fact that Radcliffe's students, having become politically conscious, deserve to be allowed to exploit that consciousness as fully as are students in other colleges...