Word: slaving
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...contract surprised diplomats, who had long written off landlocked Paraguay as the slave of Argentine's peso-diplomacy. An oil-rich Paraguay, in partnership with a non-political U.S. company, might thumb her nose at her big and bossy neighbor down the Paraná River...
...north in 1920 to be a barren-lands trapper. He had plenty of northern know-how, plenty of luck. One season he and his brother came out with $50,000 worth of white fox furs. He began prospecting in the mid-'30s, after gold was discovered near Great Slave Lake...
...just how good the De Steffany strike really is. His first shipment of tantalite ore (700 lbs., worth about $2,000) left Edmonton last week for the U.S. Government's Metals Reserve Co. Dominion Government geologists, who have surveyed the site, somewhere in a vast area bordering Great Slave Lake, report that "it's tantalite country up there...
...fantastic mixture of a Hollywood witch-doctor picture and the American Deep South. Fierce Yap and Woleai men [who had been imported as slave labor by the Japs] did a wild sword dance. Some wore breechclouts and danced barefoot. Others stomped proudly in G.I. shoes. Mreah, a male dancer, came out blowing a harmonica, and paced a group of women in gingham wrappers. Then out came some children who piped a Japanese love song in a tune that sounded like You Are My Sunshine. Their leader, a buxom girl, started her songs by chanting, 'Wan, two, left, right...
...only once is he known to have complained bitterly to a colleague : "The Americans want me to be a slave. I don't mind being a slave for the sake of victory, but" - and his voice broke with anger and injury - "they treat me as if I were a thief...