Word: claim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Family of Six. In Richmond, Va., State Selective Service authorities frowned on a showman's dependency claim. It included his wife, two children, three chimpanzees...
...made a blunder. Irked by the Tory defeat at Skipton (TIME, Jan. 24), he took a strong stand against Independent Bruce Dutton Briant, who had dared to oppose a Conservative Coalitionist in a Parliamentary by-election at Brighton. Said Churchill in a letter to Brighton voters: Briant's claim of supporting the Prime Minister, while running as an Independent, was a "swindle." Resentful Brightonians did not elect Briant, a local barrister, but they did give him enough votes to give the Conservatives a scare...
Harrods Ltd., a department store, had some Spanish sherry, bought soon after the war started at ?33 a butt (100 gallons). A German bomb hit the warehouse where the sherry was stored. Harrods collected an insurance claim for ?45 a butt (covering insurance and other costs). Then the sherry, found intact, became the property of the Government. Harrods offered to buy it back at ?200 a butt. The Government refused the offer, demanded ?500 a butt. When Harrods declined to pay any such price, officials confidently looked around for other buyers...
Modest Major Howard's combat report last week claimed only two planes destroyed, two probables and one damaged. But the Confirmation Board which passes on his report may have the unusual duty of revising a victory claim upward. Shop-talking airmen in London this week understood that Major Howard was being recommended for the Congressional Medal of Honor...
...basis of WPB figures, Consolidated was entitled to its claim. It had turned out 126,000,000 pounds of aircraft, compared to 115,000,000 for Douglas. But Douglas also had an argument. Thousands of planes produced by Consolidated were easy-to-build trainers, instead of hard-to-build combat ships. Furthermore, Consolidated had merged with Vultee and Stinson in '43, lumped all production...