Word: exploitation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...known supplies, the U. S. refines over sixty percent of the world's petroleum and cannot maintain this uneven balance indefinitely. With fewer new fields coming in each year, the oil market will shift away from the United States in two decades unless the on companies are permitted to exploit undeveloped fields in Iran, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia...
...Japanese had been first to exploit Anshan's strategic location in the midst of Manchuria's iron and coal resources. They built furnaces for pig iron and steel, rolling mills, coke ovens and chemical byproducts plants. Up to V-J day Anshan's steel output (nearly 2,000,000 tons) was the biggest on the Asiatic continent...
...wall of England's Rugby School is a granite slab with this inscription: "This stone commemorates the exploit of William Webb Ellis, who with a fine disregard for the rules of football as played in his time first took the ball in his arms and ran with it, thus originating the distinctive feature of the Rugby game...
...point-blank, "out of curiosity," just how many boys he is now helping through Harvard, Cramer replied that he "would rather not say." But he admitted that he was a hard taskmaster: "If I were working for someone, I'd insist on a full hour for lunch. But I exploit myself...
...there are more than 30,000 now. This year, Canadian firms are spending $443 million on plant expansion-nearly 50% more than they spent in 1946. Most important, Canada has a wealth of iron. While deposits in the famed U.S. Mesabi range run steadily lower, Canada has begun to exploit vast new iron ore deposits in northern Ontario and on the Quebec-Labrador border...