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Word: claim (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...businessmen have put up about $10,000,000 to push a $200,000,000 claim. If Palestine loses, the jiftlik will be divided 40% for the investors, 60% for the progeny of Abdul the Damned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PALESTINE: Whose Jiftlik? | 12/24/1945 | See Source »

...American had already paid off Arizona Broadcasting Co. for its claim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: ABC | 12/24/1945 | See Source »

Indonesian moderates, led by Premier Sutan Sjahrir, tried to curb the violence, announced their readiness to meet with the Dutch, "although we will stick to our claim to self-determination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDONESIA: Sputtering | 12/17/1945 | See Source »

...first time, as a mere tyke of ten, he split with his elder brothers and an in-law a claim which sold for $5,000,000. George lost most of his share in a wheat pool during World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: The Campbells Are Coming | 12/17/1945 | See Source »

...another fat poke. He had just sold a claim to Campbell Red Lake Gold Mines and split $800,000 in cash and stock with three partners. (Much of the credit, he felt, was due an 80-year-old Cree Indian named Jake whom he considers his good-luck charm.) This time Prospector Campbell invested in more durable things than wheat futures. Among his new acquisitions: two planes (with a private pilot), a fully equipped yacht, a saxophone (which his wife abhorred "because it makes the wolves howl"), and the first player piano to be brought into the Red Lake district...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: The Campbells Are Coming | 12/17/1945 | See Source »

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