Word: exploitation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Operation Patagonia with a series of projects. One is a $149 million El Chocón hydroelectric project on the Limay River by a 27-firm British-French-Italian combine to provide 650,000 kw. of power, irrigate 250,000 acres of parched croplands. Another is a plan to exploit 200 million tons of 55.6%-grade iron ore found twelve years ago south of the Negro River. The government has also approved plans by Houston's Butadiene & Chemical Corp. to invest $40 million for three big petrochemical plants for synthetic rubber, carbon black and butadiene gas near Comodoro Rivadavia...
...standard of living of the Russian people be improved. But that doesn't mean, for instance, that we should enable them to get into the world petroleum market. That wouldn't necessarily mean a better life for the Russians, and it might give them the chance to exploit other peoples...
...Steel Hour (CBS, 10-11 p.m.).*The capture of a television comedian speeding in his sports car hardly seems a suitable exploit for an ambitious small-town marshal. But TV marshals who catch anything besides cattle rustlers are a refreshing rarity. Trap for a Stranger has also snared Dick Van Dyke and Teresa Wright...
...took a prudent step: they divided their Syrian and Lebanese apparatus, so that if either is broken up, the other will survive. The general party line laid down in Damascus last week is understood to have been decided at a conference in Tirana, Albania last October. It is to exploit their opportunity in Iraq by launching a propaganda drive for a confederation of Arab states, as opposed to a Nasser-led united Arab nation. Their best bet is now Iraq. They have two Communist parties at work there. One calls itself Shorsh, and works among the 1,000,000 Kurds...
...deny external successes to International Communism is not merely a negative, defensive policy. It accelerates the evolution within the Sino-Soviet bloc of policies which will increasingly seek the welfare of their own peoples rather than exploit these peoples in world conquest...