Word: exploits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reply: nobody-from Standard Oil to Jesse Jones-wanted to exploit synthetic rubber at 20? to 40? a lb. (except for minor specialty products), as long as natural rubber was available at about 15? a lb. A plant to make synthetic rubber costs $1,000 per ton of annual capacity; no private company could risk that kind of money while natural rubber was plentiful. Beginning in 1939, Standard Oil tried to get the Government to finance plants; it went to the Army and Navy Munitions Board, National Defense Advisory Committee, the Senate Military Affairs Committee and Banker Jesse Jones...
...dont think there is much chance of Japan attacking Russia through Siberia this spring," de Haas said. "It is to Japan's advantage to consolidate her position in the Pacific and exploit her conquests to get raw materials for her industry...
...Japanese gave Mongolian nationalists a high-sounding Mongolian United Autonomous Government. They introduced a "planned economy" to exploit herdsmen and coolies, to loot mines and resources. The arrangement was eminently pleasing to the Japanese. Not only did they drain Inner Mongolia's wealth, but they had a vast buffer state against Russia and a Mongol army which kept the peace. Last week the army was gone...
...They [the newspapers] shoved the Presidential report to the nation into second place, and with what? Well, with the exploit of the Japanese submarine. . . . The object of the shelling, of course, as this network pointed out in its very first mention of the story last midnight, was propagandistic rather than military...
...Many a short or shallow vein of ore lies unused for lack of capital. Ickes wants authority to certify borrowers to the RFC to exploit uneconomic reserves of metals WPB needs. If private enterprises are unwilling to accept such loans, the Secretary contemplates (without, he says, enthusiasm) direct exploitation by the Government...