Word: exploitationism
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Pancake on Legs. Ernst Wollweber spent the last years of the war in Russia. In 1946, he came back to Germany and stepped into his seemingly legitimate job in the Ministry of Transport. He has a glowing bald spot, and his once rugged frame has grown so fat and flabby...
Last week Russell, Bubba, Kathy and their schoolteacher mother arrived in Britain, all set to spend the summer giving swimming exhibitions to raise money for the Channel try late this summer. Russell was sure that Bubba could make it, although Kathy, he conceded, might well have to give up before...
Unlike Sunset Boulevard, its pale counterpart stirs no emotion and avoids any commentary on the manners & morals of Hollywood, past or present. But it courts some unanticipated resentment and unwitting pathos in the exploitation of the faded oldtimers whom it uses as trophy-like props to dress up a few...
Last week Hussein Makki, the Prime Minister's right-hand man, took foreign correspondents in Teheran on a tour of the "Pit," a slum of caves and crumbling hovels-all caused, he said, by British exploitation of Iran's natural resources. Oil nationalization was served up to both...
In 1933, the British drew up a new 60-year oil agreement which gave Iran a royalty of four shillings to the ton. By the standards of the day, that was no more than a hard bargain by the empire, but by 1951 standards, it was exploitation. Under the agreement...