Word: exploiter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Locked beneath the history-laden sands of Saudi Arabia lies the world's last known great oil pool. The right to exploit it belongs to Arabian-American Oil Co., owned by The Texas Co. and Standard Oil Co. of California. But Arabian-American, which has done comparatively little drilling, saw its future production limited by a lack of distribution facilities. On the other hand, Standard Oil Co. (N.J.) and Socony-Vacuum Oil Co. have plenty of outlets in Europe, but little oil to supply them...
Backing the stand of top AVC leaders opposing Communist and Fascist infiltration, the Harvard Chapter of the American Veterans Committee last night scored in dramatic terms the "perverse philosophy" of the American Communist Party and its efforts to "exploit the hardships of the veteran in order to further the Party's selfish political ends...
...would give future generations that Vassar look. The villainess of the piece, female Senator Faye Sumner Knott, (sic) has predatory eyes slanted toward Adam, but partisan politics interfere. The first Adam is not to be Republican. In desperation, the U.S. turns to A.I. (artificial insemination), lest the Russians exploit two normal Mongolians newly discovered in Tashkent and outstrip the American effort...
Curiously enough, he added, the Arab masses regard Jewish settlement as "the symbol of Western oppression, and leaders are thus able to exploit a hatred for British imperialism to keep out the Jews...
...Moral Principles. Nicolson believes that it is to England's credit that she did not exploit this power. The Congress of Vienna contains brilliant, mostly sympathetic pen-portraits of all the principal actors, but Britain's Lord Castlereagh is Nicolson's favorite. In his day, Castlereagh was the best-hated statesman in England. (Byron called him "the vulgarest tool that Tyranny could want," and "the intellectual eunuch"; Shelley wrote the famous lines: I met Murder on the way-He had a mask like Castlereagh.) Contemptuous of parliamentary and public opinion, antiliberal, cold-blooded Castlereagh desired the independence...