Word: claim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Later, to correspondents at New Delhi, he expounded a salty preface. Said Uncle Joe: "I claim we got a hell of a beating. We got run out of Burma and it is humiliating as hell. I think we ought to find out what caused it, go back and retake it. ... The Japanese are not supermen. If we go back properly proportioned and properly equipped we can throw them...
...local deliveries to one a day, in order to save rubber and gasoline. In big cities, where newsstands account for a majority of circulation, publishers have complained that one edition a day would ruin them. They suggest pooling trucks, abolishing "returns," printing fewer editions but more than one. They claim their plan would' save more mileage than the Government...
...Australia continues to be wasted. Last week Rear Admiral John W. Greenslade told Oakland shipyard workers that thousands of needed Army trucks have been stored in the U.S. for lack of shipping space. Some Australians think this system is crazy. Fiercely proud of their young, protected industrial development, they claim they still have available capacity for assembling trucks despite all-out production...
Eliot House gets the largest number of new men from the latest drawing with 146, Winthrop and Lowell come next with 129, Kirkland has 103 Adams and Dunster claim 94 apiece, while Leverett, having taken in the largest amount last year, took 93. Lists of the new members by Houses will be found on page four...
...rules is that denning a 100-mile run as a day's work, which it has not been for years. He also hates the Brotherhood-built barriers between road and yard work. Present rules say that if a road crew does ten minutes' yard work, all can claim a full day's yardman's pay besides their road pay. Worse still, the regular yardmen can claim a day's pay on the grounds that they were gypped...