Word: claim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...battles of encirclement at Bryansk and Vyazma, which preceded last week's fighting (TIME, Oct. 20), had taken a terrible toll. The German claim of eight armies of 67 infantry divisions, six cavalry and seven tank divisions, altogether 648,000 prisoners, was probably exaggerated at least twice over; but even so many of Marshal Semion Timoshenko's best were lost...
Adolf Hitler tried to make the U.S. be lieve that the Kearny was escorting a convoy. From Berlin came a claim that a convoy had been attacked after it entered Germany's combat zone, that ten freighters and two "enemy destroyers" had been sunk. The location was close to the spot where the Kearny was hit. But the fact was that the Kearny, like the Greer, was out sub-hunting when...
Henry Shreve did not claim the $100,000, but he started building the boat. Amid sensational rumors and the hoots of river loafers, he laid the keel at Wheeling. "Talk of this hull never died. . . . The vessel defied every principle of shipbuilding." It "was exceedingly shallow of draft, but reared aloft with two decks, one above the other...
...Shreve a half interest in the monopoly, equal credit with Fulton in inventing the steamboat. When Shreve refused, Livingston had him arrested. Nevertheless, only two days behind schedule Shreve steamed out of New Orleans. "The monopoly's helplessness was farcical." In 1819 the Fulton-Livingston company withdrew all claim to a monopoly. "News of this surged up every stream. The Mississippi was free! Henry Shreve had battered the barrier down." In the next two years 60 steamboats were built on the River...
...dollars in foreign exchange. Japanese imports from America during this same period have aggregated somewhat more than 800 million dollars, of which over 500 million have consisted of materials essential for war purposes. Although last August the United States shut off exports of aviation fuel to Japan, Nipponese officials claim that American and Dutch concerns have stocked her with enough gasoline for a year. Furthermore, rumors are of ten heard that our oil companies are still sending crude fuel which is cracked upon arrival. We are still shipping scrap iron, tin plate, cotton, aluminum, lumber, and hides, and are still...