Word: claim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this winter's National Christian Mission (TIME, Oct. 14). It had given the already faithful a notable stirring-up, but as a program for "reaching the unreached" it had barely scratched the surface. With 70,000,000 Americans still outside any church, the best figure the Mission could claim was 50,000 new members added to the 40,000,000 already within the Protestant fold-a gain of one-eighth of 1%, or about 1% of the Protestant church membership of the cities visited...
...burlesque house in Fort Wayne, Ind. To find her, ads were run in Variety and Billboard. But not until the Court of Missing Heirs took the matter in hand were 240 potential Babes unearthed, of whom only three felt sure enough of their identity to head for Canada to claim the legacy...
...Wolf (Warner Bros.) spills more gore than Hollywood has seen in many a month. Its press agents claim that it is the only picture ever filmed in which every member of the cast has at least one fight. Before its 47 brawls were completed, they say, Chief Scar-Maker Carl Axzelle had to send out for extra help. By the time the film is finished, only two characters are still alive...
There was loud-mouthed Henry Comstock, called "Old Pancake" because he practically lived on flapjacks. There were Eilley and Lemuel Sanford ("Sandy") Bowers, she a boardinghouse keeper, he an illiterate mule skinner. They had a 20-ft. claim on the richest part of the lode, and at one time were taking $18,000 a week out of it. They built a mansion with solid silver doorknobs, made a trip to Europe to get furniture, tried to get an interview with Queen Victoria...
Nazi industry, as everyone knows, retains the forms of free capitalism, but its controls are in Party hands. Salesmen of National Socialism claim that this system unifies the nation, puts an end to internal social war. But capitalism dies hard. Last week it regained limited control of the German coal industry, gave evidence that even in the socialized, militarized Reich, a social struggle still goes...