Word: exploited
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last he has come into full control of the capital city and has driven Wu Pei-Fa southward. Accordingly the question of his next step arises. Will he exploit China for the advantage of his own pocket, already bulging with a two million dollar income, or will he seek only the unification and development of his country, as he promises, so that it may become the united nation which alone is capable, in his opinion, of settling the problems of the Far East...
...himself together and is working off the effects of a violent "jag." The shades of Addison and Steele, returned to earth, if they survived half a day in London traffic, would shrink away in horror at the prospect of the press. The struggle for supremacy has led from one exploit to another. The papers are daring each other into new ways of getting subscribers. The "Morning Post" promises eloquently to become the premier daily in Britain. The "Telegraph" has begun to deliver its Contest edition to Paris before breakfast,--by airplane. Not to be outdone, the "Daily News" announces that...
...present system of economic life rests on the right of the owners of jobs to exploit those who take the jobs. Some time in the near future those who do the work of the world will run and control the jobs on which they work...
Newspapers in this country have been conjecturing as to the reason for this elaborate exploit. Various suggestions have been advanced, many of them as interesting as they are unusual. One possibility, however, has been overlooked: perhaps Santa Claus stuffed the stockings in Deutschland with paper marks. But if he has been kind enough to hand out real money, we cannot retrain from reminding the Germans that the Allied bills, like most others, are payable on the first of the month...
With such small shares of cultivated area they must exploit every inch of ground just as long as they can reap any profit from their efforts, and all means are to be tried in order to produce as much as possible from the small improved land of their holdings. Readers who see the following figures will not be surprised to learn the superior yields produced from Japanese fields as compared with others, if they keep in mind this statement regarding the Japanese farmer. The figures below give the comparative yields in various countries with the average value of the yield...