Word: exploitation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...make her husband sell his electrical invention to the power trust, accept a steady job and settle down in an all-electric house in the suburbs. Alternately dazzled by his wife's charm and enraged by her breezy feminine sophistry, Dick Shale (Bramwell Fletcher) is equally determined to exploit his invention on his own, buy back and return to his family's farm. Angela's chief weapon is her glib ability to change the subject of an argument. Slow-witted Dick's most effective device is to throttle her when she does so. That he ultimately...
...watching with great interest the fight being waged against public utility holding company legislation. I have watched the use of investors' money to make the investor believe that the efforts of government to protect him are designed to defraud him. I have seen much of the propaganda . . . to exploit the most far-fetched and fallacious fears . . . enough to be as unimpressed by it as I was by the similar effort to stir up the country against the Securities Exchange bill last spring...
Last week word reached the U. S. of Publisher Agnelli's latest exploit. He equipped every Stampa reporter, at home and abroad, with a small, high-powered candid camera. Henceforth Stampa newshawks will be expected to snap everything newsworthy they see, indoors or out, without fussing with flashlights...
...begin to talk until he was 20 months old but when he did, according to his mentors, he rattled off complete, grammatical sentences. By his second birthday, with help from his letter blocks, none from his parents, he had taught himself to read. Bunny's most startling exploit occurred shortly after that when he sat down at a piano, worked out a system of musical notation, using a different number for each note. Today he is a chubby, serious lad with a mental age of 16, a conversational level above that of the ordinary adult. Only normal...
Floating Embassy. Swift is Ambassador Grew to exploit promising U. S. visitors for their country's good; and his Embassy plant, structure and personnel is one of the finest in the U. S. Foreign Service. Big as three city blocks, the diplomatic preserve in Tokyo rises in terraces up a hill once the property of the late, great Premier Ito, a hill violently shaken by the earthquake...