Word: claim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hunter Hunted. In June, the Nazis claimed to have sunk 312,000 tons of Allied shipping-a far cry from the mad March days of 1942 and 1943, when they claimed 900,000 or more. But even this relatively modest claim was a thousand percent exaggeration. In other words, sinkings actually were under 30,000 tons...
...designers claim that the heater will cost much less and be cheaper to run than other automatic furnaces now on the market.* It needs only a small vent (instead of a full-size chimney), can be installed virtually anywhere in the house...
...prewar, four-year excess profits base on which the tax is estimated. Thus, since the top bracket is 90%, even a slight upward revision of the average base would mean an enormous rebate. To make sure that no corporation was frozen out of at least a chance to claim such a recount, Congress made Section 722 a long, loosely-phrased document offering several broad formulas for arriving at a new tax base. Example: if, during one of the four tax-base years, a corporation's profits were below normal, it could compute a new average tax base for four...
Just under 33,000 claims, totaling about $3 billion, have been filed with the Bureau so far. Under the vague phraseology in the law, almost every corporation which can collar an unemployed lawyer can gamble a few thousand dollars with a chance of winning a rebate many times as big. But by the same token the money spent to prepare a claim is likely to be a bet on the whim of a tax official. The lawyers know this, and thus are engaging in an unprecedented amount of paper work. One big company submitted a 900-page rebate claim. Another...
During the past weekend some of the lands, finding the dearth of women in Boston unbearable, headed for the wide open spaces seeking the beauties of New England. Chick Henn and Ed Johnson Claim they found them in historic old Provincetown. Of course, that is not all they told...