Word: exploits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...what interested employes most was the account that Newsmen gave of their work at home and abroad. Main exploit on the home front last year was a News investigation of Moe Annenberg that led to his indictment and the cutting off of his wire service to bookmakers (TIME...
About ten centuries before Christ, Egypt's Rameses III conquered in sea battle a coalition of Trojans, Achaeans and Philistines. The better to exploit her new-won sea power, Egypt moved her capital from Thebes, 400 miles up river, to Tanis, 60 miles from modern Alexandria, close to the sea but not too close to suffer from pirates. The religious capital remained at Thebes, ruled by Amon's high priests. Smendes, sprig of a rich merchant family, founded the 21st (Tanis) Dynasty. His successor, Psousennes I, reigned 46 years...
...recent success of Andree Lorrain (Mademoiselle Paris) in captivating Harvard men has induced other foreign charmers to move in and exploit the fertile Crimson field...
...juiciest overseas plum secured by Yankee traders since inauguration of the Good Neighbor Policy is a 60-year concession to exploit oil lands throughout the whole of Saudi Arabia. This plum fell to Standard Oil Co. of California last summer-almost unnoticed, since U. S. citizens were then so busy watching the European volcano burp. What soft-collared, spatless Standard businessmen had achieved was signal defeat of top-hatted Japanese, Ger man and British diplomats who had been struggling for years to win this Near East prize...
Fabulous is the story of U. S. iron ore, legendary its characters. In the early 'gos two brothers, Alfred and Leonidas Merritt, borrowed $420,000 from John D. Rockefeller to exploit Minnesota's famed Mesabi iron range, overextended themselves financing transportation facilities, building up a $29,400,000 corporation. During the '93 panic, John D. called his loan, took over the property at a $29,000,000 profit. Meanwhile, in 1892, another U. S. steel pioneer was at work on the Mesabi-Henry W. Oliver, who joined up with Andrew Carnegie's right-hand man, Henry...