Word: claim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said Senator Walter F. George, chairman of the Finance Committee: "The bill represents perhaps the maximum direct taxes which can be imposed during the war, but it does not go very far toward checking inflation. The Finance Committee does not claim that, and it was for that reason we provided for a joint committee to study plans for compulsory savings to make recommendation to Congress...
...Mare Nostrum" is what the unoriginal Japanese broadcasters call the Arafura Sea, which separates Australia's north coast from the western half of New Guinea. This Jap-claimed sea, nearly 4,000 miles south of Tokyo, is half the size of the Gulf of Mexico, is dotted with some 200 small islands divided into three archipelagos. Last week Tokyo Radio claimed that Japanese troops had occupied some more of these islands. There was no one to dispute the claim. The Japanese had been inching into outposts of The Netherlands East Indies ever since they seized Timor last February. They...
...some two months Flying Fortresses have pounded at industrial centers in Western Europe. In sorties over some 30 towns they have tested their punch. The raid on Lille proved that their punch is deadly. Said the British Press Association's air correspondent: "[The raid] again supports the U.S. claim that their Flying Fortresses are more than a match for any fighter the enemy is known to possess...
Soviet Russia does not claim it is a democracy, but it does claim to be our staunch ally in war and in the peace to come. We do not have to condone every institution of the Soviet system any more than they will condone out poll tax laws, or our race discrimination while they have practically none. Both nations have chosen their own system and neither should impair the united struggle against fascism by mocking the other's political faith...
...born. Free from the horrors of commercials, the network will devote itself primarily to the best classical music, although "exceptional programs of popular music and other significant broadcasts" will be put on the air. "Music 1 Men will find radio station WLP almost a sure way to a B," claim the sponsors...