Word: exploitational
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...Politicians who rashly opposed Il Duce were ambushed and forced to swallow a pint, a quart, even a sickening gallon of what Farinacci called his "golden nectar of nausea." As Secretary General of the Fascist Party he wielded Ku-Klux powers of life and death. His last notorious, outrageous exploit was to warp the very fibre of Italian Justice and get off virtually scot free the Fascist murderers of the multimillionaire Socialist Deputy Giacomo Matteotti (TIME, April 5, 1926). Leading U. S. correspondents have since revealed that at the time they and the Italian press were compelled to suppress material...
...ethnology of the races in the various colonies he visited is material for several interesting pages, and the difficulties confronting the French in their efforts to civilize the natives and exploit the country are capably discussed. But natural descriptions are usually reduced to cataloguing of the customs of the inhabitants and the birds and animals seen. Evidently the writer realizes his weakness for he makes gallant attempts to raise his style to more inspired heights by the interjection of eloquent rhapsodies that unfortunately end by losing themselves in a cloud of meaningless adjectives...
...course of the craze to 20,000, although French finances were in a bad way and there was no Mississippi trade to speak of. Men sold their all and hastened to Paris, crowding the Rue Quincampoix, the Bourse of that day. Shares even were sold for a company to exploit perpetual motion and "for a design which will hereafter be promulgated." In 1820 the whole thing burst, but John Law had long ago sold out and left the country...
...Interior is ex-officio a member of the Federal Power Commission, it came to pass that Mr. Insull's lawyer, long a stockholder in the Middle West Utilities Co., sat last week upon that Federal tribunal to which that Insull company had to apply for a licence to exploit the Cumberland Falls on the Cumberland River in Kentucky. And so it was, in view of his Insull connection and of the Insull part in a political deal which the Senate has condemned, that many a Senator was grumbling about Secretary West's appointment, which President Coolidge last week...
...Hiram Johnson, to obtain additional drinking water for Los Angeles, flood control for California's sub-sea-level Imperial Valley, and electric power for cities as distant as Cheyenne, Salt Lake City, Denver, San Diego. Arizona has doggedly called it a "power grab," a selfish California scheme to exploit Arizona's natural resource before Arizona herself is ready...