Word: exploits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Well aware that his discovery spelled money, Steenbock pondered what to do with it. Tradition gave him three choices: he could 1) keep his university job and develop his invention on the side, as most professor-inventors do; 2) quit the university and go into business to exploit his patents; or 3) make a free gift of his patent to food manufacturers...
This initiative, this freedom of action was what the Japs had when they advanced into the Southwest Pacific. It is what the Pacific Allies must have and exploit, on a scale far greater than that of last week's preliminary, before they can advance to Tokyo...
...raid, even to many of its specific details, had been a U.S. open secret for a long time. The fact seemed to be that the raid, which had first been hailed as a great and famous thing, had gradually been publicly accepted as something less-a bold but ineffective exploit-in what the New York Herald Tribune called "our sophomore period...
Last week the report was released in La Paz. Most of the fears turned out to have been unnecessary. An impartial U.S.Bolivian Commission of jurists, unionists, industrialists and Government economists found many an example of outrageous exploitation, many a sore spot in the Bolivian economy. But the authors of the report also demonstrated an intelligent awareness that the root causes lay deep in centuries of poverty and inevitably slow development. In its sum, the report was at once an indictment of those who now exploit these conditions, and a challenge to all the Americas to raise the standards of substandard...
...Queens Hospital has been a proving ground for new treatments. Says Dr. Larsen: "The literature and the drug houses often exploit something that eventually proves to be worthless. We were able to publish the first adverse report in America on the uselessness of mercurochrome as a specific cure for streptococcus infections...