Word: mined
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...held out the lure of low taxes, cheap labor and liberal tariff treaties with Central American common market countries. Business responded. Arrow Shirts, Colgate-Palmolive, and General Mills, for example, plan expansion of their facilities. And there are newcomers. International Nickel hopes to set up a $60 million strip mine, Texaco is building a $10 million refinery, and Kern Foods is making Guatemala its distribution center for Central America...
Hoover traveled the world as a doctor of sick mines. At 24, he was chief engineer of China's Bureau of Mines, and a living legend; he was known as "the foreign mandarin" with "green eyes" that could pierce the earth. He advised the Russian Czar on the development of his huge mine holdings, made a fortune of his own, mainly on fabulous lead, silver and zinc mines in the jungles of Burma...
...warned the French and English of likely U.S. indignation unless they eased their blockade to facilitate such shipments. After such tactics succeeded, Hoover supervised the shipment of a billion dollars worth of food and clothing to Belgium, directed a fleet of 60 cargo ships and 400 barges, crossed the mine-filled North Sea 40 times himself...
...continued. "My program began last March. I am a citizen of Cambridge. I live in Cambridge. I am intensely interested in the environ. 'Environ' is a French word which means 'the surroundings.'" At this point Dietz looked at his watch and commented, "I believe my watch has stopped." "Mine hasn't," Teele retorted quickly. "One for you, Sir," Dietz said...
Every day I walk in the presence mine enemies...