Word: claim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Navy men in general have no love for MacArthur; many of them believe he has slighted their service. In a special sense, the Pacific War is and has been the Navy's war, and the Navy knows that its prestige in that war is its great claim to public and Congressional support after the peace. The Navy would shrink from any public controversy with prestige-laden Douglas MacArthur. Its policy is rather to sit tight and trust that time and events, principally on Luzon, will solve the problem...
...their tire formula for six years, recently perfected it with the help of the Andy Brothers Tire Shop in Washington. The abrasive material (a sawdust mixture) is mixed with recapping camelback (uncured rubber compound) under pressure, then applied to a tire by the usual molding process. The Gapen brothers claim that their tires will outlast ordinary ones. They have driven some of their recaps 9,500 miles...
...black & white terms that it was possible for his journalistic detractors to picture him as fit for the loony bin, while his journalistic defenders called him the political hope of the common man (see cuts). In the end, the compromise was so adroit that both sides could, and did, claim a victory. The Wallace opponents had blocked his way into the biggest lending agency on earth. But Henry Wallace, who, at 56, is a rising politician, had won the hope of an effective sounding board within the Government. And, for a man who wants to be the economic Messiah...
Separatists claim a membership of 30,000 in their party. They claimed 20 times that number of followers. Among these New York Times Correspondent Herbert Matthews last week found the Maffia "deeply involved." The separatists claim that Sicily would be better off if free of Rome's remote control. The Maffia favors freedom too-to carry on its own peculiar stiletto justice...
...Costs. In the U.S. last March there were more than half a million soldiers physically qualified for combat who were serving as "overhead" troops (administration, maintenance, communications, etc.). By the end of November the number had been cut almost in half. Gasser & Co. could claim credit for 100,000 of them. All but some 10,000 men of those left were in the Air Forces, which gave up 80,000 and insisted that they needed the rest for domestic operations...