Word: exploited
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Colonel Freyberg. One night some years ago, a British officer painted his body black and slipped over a dread-naught's side into the moiling waters of the Dardanelles. He swam ashore, penetrated the Turkish lines, lit flares to guide a landing-party. For this exploit he received a medal from his Government. When Author Sir James Barrie, some time later, was delivering a now celebrated address before St. Andrews University, he referred to this incident as an example of incomparable courage, turned to bow to Colonel Freyberg who sat behind him on the platform...
...which, of course, Bolshevik Foreign Minister Georg Tchitcherin indignantly denied. Unbiased reports from China-that is, the average of biased reports, for all communications from that once celestial land are more or less colored-seem unanimous that the root of the disturbances is due to the foreign Powers which exploit China economically and dominate her politically. Bolshevik influences, which are obviously existent, found rather than caused a situation of deep discontent, which was naturally receptive of Moscow's virulent propaganda...
...their properties and assets, into a new Chrysler Motor Corporation (TIME, Apr. 20). Last week, this transformation was consummated. The Chrysler Motor Corporation promptly declared a $4 dividend on its Preferred A, and two full pages in The Saturday Evening Post (at cost of $14,000) announced a further exploit of Walter P. Chrysler...
...This exploit was to be, of course, a four-cylinder car to roll into the little shoes of the late Maxwell. The Chrysler touring car was advertised at $895, the coupé at $995, the sedan at $1,095, the "coach" at $1,045. The newcomer would have to compete with the Overland, Dodge, Essex, Oldsmobile, Hupmobile just as its older brother had competed with the Buick, Jordan, Reo, Studebaker, Rickenbacker, Hudson, Nash, Willys-Knight. But in this it would be aided, not only by its Maxwell legacy, but by the older brother's reputation. The promises...
...Circumstances. Briefly, Edward L. Doheny made a "loan" of $100,000 to Secretary of Interior Albert B. Fall in November, 1921. Between April and December of the following year, Mr. Fall, acting on behalf of the Navy Department, granted to two of Mr. Doheny's companies leases to exploit on a royalty basis Naval Oil Reserve No. 1 (at Elk Hills, California), and contracts whereby the Doheny companies were to construct oil-storage tanks at the naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, which were to be paid for by the Government...