Word: exploitation
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...Japanese gave Mongolian nationalists a high-sounding Mongolian United Autonomous Government. They introduced a "planned economy" to exploit herdsmen and coolies, to loot mines and resources. The arrangement was eminently pleasing to the Japanese. Not only did they drain Inner Mongolia's wealth, but they had a vast buffer state against Russia and a Mongol army which kept the peace. Last week the army was gone...
...They [the newspapers] shoved the Presidential report to the nation into second place, and with what? Well, with the exploit of the Japanese submarine. . . . The object of the shelling, of course, as this network pointed out in its very first mention of the story last midnight, was propagandistic rather than military...
...almost a greater humiliation than Singapore. No enemy had even dared such an exploit since 1690, when the French Admiral Tourville defeated the British and the Dutch off Beachy Head and then triumphantly swept along the English coast. The humiliation was not distant; it took place in the Channel itself, named for the homeland, in the Strait named Dover...
...admittedly more heretical than the Seaway's, but its urgency was greater too. Its cost was incalculable and unspecified. It embraced 25 States and Alaska. It took Harold Ickes 35 pages merely to outline it in a letter to Senator O'Mahoney. It was a proposal to exploit the unexploited mineral wealth...
...Many a short or shallow vein of ore lies unused for lack of capital. Ickes wants authority to certify borrowers to the RFC to exploit uneconomic reserves of metals WPB needs. If private enterprises are unwilling to accept such loans, the Secretary contemplates (without, he says, enthusiasm) direct exploitation by the Government...