Word: claim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...election year, Vermont can claim distinction as a state which will cast its vote for the Republican nominee, regardless...
...Seaway, mostly mid-westerners, point rapturously to the benefits of connecting the Great Lakes to the Atlantic, which they believe would make Chicago the commercial capital of the world. They argue that the Seaway could relieve much of the pressure now taxing the country's overloaded transportation system. Minnesotans claim that the great Mesabi iron ore deposits that feed the mid-west steel mills are nearly played out, and if cheap Labrador ores can't be shipped down the St. Lawrence, an unthinkable dislocation of the steel industry will occur. Senator Wiley of Wisconsin warned in recent debates that...
...steam from the Atlantic to any of the ports on the Great Lakes. The Seaway's second feature is a power-producing chain of dams on the St. Lawrence which would provide locks for navigation. As now conceived, the entire enterprise is estimated at $720,000,000, although opponents claim that expenses would run much higher...
...potentialities of the St. Lawrence. In 1921, Alcoa, General Electric, and Du Pont wanted to buy the rights for power development on the river from Ogdensburg, New York, to Montreal. They were willing to throw the navigation in for free, but were turned down. Although spokesmen for private power claim that the supply is adequate, New York and New England are paying rates that are unusually high for such a highly industrialized section of the country. The Seaway means cheap, plentiful--and public--power...
...ringing tones, Arévalo reaffirmed Guatemala's century-old claim to British Honduras. Between notes to London, he composed a resolution to be submitted to the Bogota conference "calling for the disappearance of all colonies on American territory." Then, while his police watched to see that things did not go too far, 2,500 students paraded, ran up the Guatemalan flag on the British Legation flagstaff, plastered the building with stickers proclaiming "Pirates in Tuxedos!"-"Death to John Bull...