Word: exploitation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sloganeers. The Russians were also going on the offensive in the diplomatic battle over disarmament. In London last week Soviet Delegate Valerian Zorin bluntly brushed aside the laborious spell-out of the Western proposals to the U.N. Disarmament Subcommittee. This left Russia free to exploit the disarmament issue in the twelfth U.N. General Assembly session beginning next week. There Russia can again hard-sell the simple slogan, "Let's all stop nuclear tests...
CITIES SERVICE CO. will make first major effort by any U.S. company to drill for oil in Africa's promising Sahara Desert. Deal is for fifty-fifty profit split with two French companies in a joint venture to exploit Sahara's proven reserves of 3.5 billion bbl., explore for potential reserves conservatively estimated at 7 billion...
...produce as many problems as props for the economy. Said Senior Vice President James Neville Land, 62, in the bank's weekly newsletter: "Our rising population is creating pressures on natural resources which tend to retard further increases in material wellbeing. We must dig deeper oil wells and exploit less productive veins of coal and go farther afield for water supplies, all of which is a drag on prosperity...
...clean-living Tennessee homebody with a real mom and pop. The big pitch in Loving You is that Deke, wide-eyed and unspoiled, is victimized by a predatory lady pressagent (Lizabeth Scott) and a scheming bandleader (Wendell Corey). But the harder the venal two try to cheapen and exploit this naive lad, the richer he gets. He just can't avoid...
...desert. Cities Service Co. and Standard Oil Co. (N.J.) say they are "interested" in making a Sahara oil deal. The five-year leases that French oil companies took in 1952 will expire this September, and some 27 million acres of potential oil lands that these companies did not exploit will be up for lease. U.S. oilmen guess that the French will sell about a 45% interest to U.S. companies and to Royal Dutch Petroleum, which is already producing in the Sahara...