Word: claim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...coarse gold. They built a cabin, went feverishly to work. Three days later a band of Sioux swept down on them. Only two prospectors escaped. They headed for the Oregon Trail with three baking powder cans of gold, spent a fretful winter at Fort Laramie, then started back to claim the creek's treasure. They were never seen again...
This guess - and WPB did not claim that its figures were more than a carefully calculated guess - based the number of cars on the amount of steel scheduled for release to civilian industries after midsummer. Out of 2½ million tons of steel that will be available from military cutbacks, WPB Boss Krug estimated that the auto industry will get about 300,000 tons, enough for 200,000 cars. The balance of the steel will go to manufacturers of railroad cars, farm machinery, refrigerators, washing machines...
...Times go ahead with its experiment.) It costs the Times about $1,000 a day to pass out 2,000 free copies a day to conference delegates. In return, the Times is getting a lot of good will, and some prac tical experience toward fulfilling its claim to be a national newspaper (it has always feared that quality would be diffused in chain publishing). Encouraged by the success of their experiment, Times editors are speculating right out loud that the Times, by facsimile transmission, could keep its Manhattan integrity while distributing late news in such faraway spots as Boston, Chicago...
...girl's an impostress," retorted Sir Crisp, the Lord Mayor, promptly ordering the pardon of Mary Squires. Others called her a fraud comparable to the Rabbit Woman, who had set all London by its gullible ears with her claim "to have borne an incredible number of rabbits at a birth...
UNRRA now has some 3,200 employes, 1,900 in the field, 1,300 in Washington and London offices. But not even UNRRA's staunchest defenders claim that its personnel is anywhere near competent. Average salary for a field worker is $3,600. Starting late in the hiring field, UNRRA found most capable men already in the Army or in better-paying Government or private jobs. What UNRRA got, in general, were culls, drifters through Government hiring halls, and plain incompetents...