Word: exploits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...beginning was anything from a Buck Rogers death ray to hot air. But the sudden, startling capture early last week of Eben Emael fortress, potent key of Bel gium's Liege defense system and synonym to Belgians for Security, made the world wonder. Germany officially announced that this exploit was accomplished by use of a new Angriffsmittel (attack method) operated by one Lieut. Witzig, an air pilot who landed his plane inside the fortress and in a few minutes, "despite heavy de fense measures," rendered its 1,000 occupants so defenseless that a mechanized Nazi column which soon arrived...
...stable in his back yard into a laboratory. He found that phenol (carbolic acid) and formaldehyde interacted to make a non-melting, non-dissolving solid like nothing in nature. This was Bakelite, foundation stone of the synthetic plastic industry. After forming General Bakelite Co. (later Bakelite Corp.) to exploit his discovery, Baekeland methodically listed 43 industries in which he thought it would be useful. Today it would be hard to find 43 in which it is not used...
Evans makes the weakling Richard understandable, turns him-as his fortunes fail-into a pathetic if not sympathetic figure. Since the play is short on action but rich in language, it offers Evans his greatest chance to exploit his best asset-his melodious High-Church voice. When Evans took Richard II to Broadway early in 1937, this story of an abdicating English king gained piquancy and pathos because another English king had just abdicated. It goes on being effective with no help from the Windsors...
...large extent upon paradoxical international relations. Although politically aligned with the democracies, Mexico's economic mess has driven the country into closer economic relations with Japan, Germany and South American countries. Mexico still mortally fears gringo imperialism, whose representatives are again taking advantage of internal conditions to exploit the tour ist trade and mineral industries on the strength of the falling peso. And the Government will slap gringo wrists when it can get away with it. Last fortnight it ordered nationalized thousands of acres of U. S.-owned chicle lands...
...Chemical Foundation, forgathered in Dearborn, Mich., five years ago, to add to the three rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, a fourth right of man: the "right of self-maintenance." This grandiose program started the National Farm Chemurgic Council, whose purpose is to find and exploit industrial uses for farm products...