Word: exploitatively
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There was not even any assurance that John Lewis would not strike anyhow. Final contract negotiations stalled over his insistence on clauses which would make it possible for the miners to exploit the loopholes in the Taft-Hartley Act. The operators insisted on legal language that would protect them against a charge of attempting to evade the law. When they found the formula, they signed. A few hours later, John L. Lewis' 200-man policy committee approved the agreement which would send the miners back to work...
...closer than Queen Victoria's little isle was the Soviet Union which might, like Britain before it, exploit the weakness of a divided India to win hegemony. Already Puran Chandra Jpshi, India's grinning Communist leader,' and other Russian agents had a small (50,000), growing, tightly organized machine within India. If dissension grew in India, Joshi's grin (and Russia's chance) would grow with...
...Christian Nationalists, "The Cross and the Flag," is personally published by Gerald L.K. Smith in Detroit. In a recent issue, Smith commented: "We have known for some time that the so called Conference of Christians and Jews was a program of fakery, hypocrisy ...set up to deceive mislead, and exploit a bunch of simpletons...." Of the Fair Employment Practises Commission, Smith said, "It is a trick being promoted by Negro political bosses and Jewish political bosses...
...polish that almost absolves it; literary standards are irrelevant to its high sheen and jet propulsion. What gives The Vixens special interest is the fact that its author is the first Negro to make an unqualified success in the slick-writing field. The publishers neither conceal nor exploit this fact: their publicity refers to 31-year-old Frank Yerby as a man who taught English at Florida A. & M. College and Southern University, La., leaves it up to the reader to know that they are Negro colleges...
...company overinvested in bicycles, lost out. Unperturbed, Durant got control of the tottering Flint Wagon Works, sold $10,000,000 worth of stock to exploit its rights to manufacture a horseless carriage, designed by David Buick. He made millions in a few years, laid grandiose plans to take over the lusty young auto industry. He almost did, by merging five companies-Henry Ford was the most important holdout-into General Motors...