Word: claim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...suitable for cotton culture, and they hoped ultimately to bring their average yield up to about a bale to the acre. But even if they should reach their objective, they still would not be a threat to the world market if they consume as much cotton as they claim they will...
With 20 days in which to answer it, President Hal Collins swung into action last week, put lawyers to work drafting a reply, proposed to take a "trainload" of cured Crazy customers to Washington to back his claim. Said he: "We'd just as soon comply with some of the commission's demands, but those that would put us out of business we're going to answer...
...last ten minutes are devoted to singing the title number in about five different ways, and because all five are top notch arrangements, the end of the film is considerably better than the middle. Mickey warbles in his not-too-bad torch voice, and Judy Garland establishes a real claim for Somebody's Singing Crown. Ah, her eyes...
...heart just as the mortgage is going to be foreclosed--yes, there is a mortgage--seems slightly less than sincere. The various younger females, the daughter of the Fullers and her friends, were disappointingly undecorative save for one uncommunicative siren, Toni Sorel, whose brief appearances make Ann Sheridan's claim to the title of Oomph Queen patently absurd...
...engineers claim that one-third of the Army's strategic and critical materials are in TVA mountains. To make sure that no TVA assets are overlooked, David Lilienthal keeps a staff of researchers hard at work. Last week he announced that one of them, frail M. I. T. man John Henry Walthall, had developed a new process for extracting alumina (raw material of aluminum) from common clay, which abounds in TVAland. Other TVA discoveries include methods for making a cork insulation substitute out of vermiculite (a mica-like rock), for deriving magnesium from olivine, plastics from cottonseed hulls...