Word: exploits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Every year the U. S. steel industry consumes some 750,000 tons of manganese ore. Some of it comes from Africa where the great manganese mines are on the seaboard, easy to exploit. Some of it makes the long passage from India. A great deal comes from the Soviet mines in Georgia, Russia, which William Averell Harriman tried unsuccessfully to handle. Only 8% comes from U. S. mines...
...released. He said: "If Communism is a trial, so also is Capitalism. ... It is up to the Capitalist system to clean its Augean stables and divest itself of some of its manifestations of greed, inhumanity and reaction. ... I believe in Capitalism shorn of its abuses and ugly greed to exploit labor for the Almighty Dollar...
...Star's beat was another personal exploit of its ace Reporter Harry Thompson Brundidge, who achieved some note last summer by telling a Chicago Grand Jury that the murdered Jake Lingle was by no means Chicago's only racketeering newsman; that he had found a dozen others who worked hand-in-glove with the underworld...
...than beg admittance to the room where that very information is being recited by students or where that very information is being dispensed by possibly the ablest of college lecturers. The journalist will dig in his own "morgue", his own library, make luncheon appointments with fellows rated as authorities, exploit the Reader's Guide, perhaps take a trip to see with his own eyes and hear with his own ears, and, if he runs to the professor in the end, it will not be to sit out a recitation or lecture, it will be to pump him, principally to check...
...second Manassas, the Seven Days' Battle, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Antietam, the Wilderness. When McClellan invaded Virginia, Stuart's 80-mile, 24-hour raid across his rear with 1,800 troopers and four guns established what Capt. Thomason thinks is a record: "I know of no equal exploit in the cavalry annals...