Word: claim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been given to labor's claim that it was fighting a sinister capitalist plot to destroy unions and break up the American system. Labor's charge that industry could and would sit on its haunches all year taking its profit from the "carryback" provisions of the tax law, was also shaken...
...Japs had a long, skinny, twin-engine reconnaissance plane which could have taken off from Tokyo, scouted the U.S. West Coast from Vancouver to Los Angeles and got home again. So say the Japs. Early in July 1944, they claim, their A26 flew a record-breaking 10,160 miles nonstop in 57 hours, over a closed course* in Manchuria, and landed with enough fuel for another 1,870 miles...
Fifth Air Force technicians who found the A26 (one of the only two built) on an airdrome near Tokyo are inclined to believe the claim. Notable feature: fuel tanks cover 75% of the A-26's wing span, carry nine tons (3,219 gallons) of gasoline, accounting for some 54% of the plane's gross weight...
Diphtheria is one contagious, infectious disease that doctors have just about learned to control. Even so, there was an approximate 30% rise in cases in the U.S. last year. UNRRA called diphtheria Europe's "leading epidemic disease" since 1942. In Japan, diphtheria continued to claim new victims. U.S. Public Health officials shook their heads, clucked warningly, advised 100% child inoculation...
...Three new synthetic engine lubricants, all from different sources (silicones, natural gas and other organic chemicals) were previewed last week. The makers' claim: all three have a fairly constant rate of flow in boiling heat or freezing cold; none forms sludge, carbon or varnish on cylinder heads and spark plugs. California's Union Oil Co. joined the chorus with a motor oil called "New Triton," which is long-wearing, noncorrosive, sludge-free...