Word: exploiter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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News-stand-buyer John Box casts unwarranted suspicion upon the exploit of honest Albert Snook. Let Mr. Box turn to p. 14 of TIME, Oct. 27, 1924, and read how Albert Snook won not "an antique" but "The Chess Game," a painting by John Singer Sargent, at a lottery for the benefit of lay patrons of the Painters and Sculptors Gallery Association, in Manhattan. Art-patron-publisher "Lucky" Snook was first noted by TIME when he attended an Associated Press convention at Manhattan and emitted there on the appearance of President Coolidge "a wild and enthusiastic yell" which was heard...
...theorists and imitators wert following up my work, but always I remained far ahead of them, constantly meeting new problems which I swiftly grappled anc solved. I returned to England anc formed a company, since known as Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Co Ltd., to exploit my work (I have ever been known as a good business man). Permanent stations were built. The first commercia transaction was when I followed the Kingstown Regatta races oJ 1898, on a tug behind the yachts flashing results to the Express ai Dublin. That same year, Queer Victoria was on the Isle of Wight...
Gentle Grafters. An attractive damsel, under personal supervision of a wicked old baggage, would exploit the modern business man, remain a nice girl withal. Artfully, she barters little tokens of self-respect for ten dollar bills, dinners, gowns, invitations to the country. As it must, under even the most liberal credit system, there comes a day of reckoning. The poor girl has but one asset. She surrenders her virtuous distinction. A little moth, a little flame, a little singe-it is nothing to bring a lump to the throat. Katharine Alexander makes it more interesting than it deserves...
...their predicament U. S. rub ber manufacturers have five measures towards gaining some relief: 1) reclaimed rubber, 2) synthetic rubber, 3) factice, 4) mineral rubber, and 5) more economical meth ods of manufacture. Improved Manufacture. Last week a company was formed, the American Anode Inc., to exploit a new process of manufacture, which may have momentous effects on the entire industry. This process is no less than the electrolitic deposition of rubber globules on molds, emersed in an emulsified rubber solution through which an electric current is passed. The Anode method was devised by and Dr. Drs. S. Paul...
...Guatemala are of great interest both historically and archeologically. The entire region was claimed by England early in the seventeenth century as a protectorate and a colony was established at Black River. About 1820, a man named Gregor McGregor started a land boom there in an attempt to exploit the natural resources of the country. This aroused the diplomats of both the Latin-American republics and the United States, and forced the English to give up all but what is now British Honduras. The kingdom of the Mosquito Indians was recognized in 1670 by Charles II of England...