Word: claimed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Into Death Valley from Red Mountain, Calif. chugged the automobile of Prospector John Backert, bound with his family of three for the Backert claim at Leach Springs, 60 miles away. Suddenly, one of the desert's rare cloudbursts swept down upon them, made a river of the road, forced the car to turn up a hillside, where it broke an axle. Well aware of their danger, Prospector Backert and Daughter Ernestine, 22, left Mrs. Backert, 51, and Daughter Agnes, 12, in the car, started to hike the 40 miles back to town, got there 48 hours later. Organizing...
...nervous little Dr. Maurice Brodie for his much-publicized vaccine of which he has issued some 6,000 doses. But because he gets only ten doses out of each $15 rhesus monkey imported from India, he has had to deny vaccine requisitions right & left. Dr. Brodie does not claim that his vaccine is the definitive preventive of infantile paralysis and other physicians will not concede its validity until after some 50,000 children have been inoculated and their resistance to the disease adequately tested. On the other hand, the vaccine does no harm...
...organization, however, which can be counted on to yield no quarter is the American Newspaper Publishers Association. Last year ANPA's advertising bureau head, William A. Thomson, decided to take a critical look at Radio's offhand claim of "millions of listeners." The fruits of that investigation appeared last week as Yardsticks on the Air, a pamphlet published by ANPA, which struck the year's hardest wallop at Radio as an advertising medium...
...Many Homes Have Radios? Answer: 19,001,592. or 58.4%. This figure does not represent maximum potential circulation since no network claims to cover every square mile of the U. S. For 79 selected programs, the networks claim an average "listening area" of 12,489,886 sets. But all sets are not running all the time...
Month ago the officers of the nation's Young Democratic Clubs, which claim 3,000.000 members aged 18 to 40, confidently expected that President Roosevelt, their national secretary Son James Roosevelt, and 10,000 delegates would attend their second national convention in Milwaukee. Last week some 1,500 delegates showed up, but not President Roosevelt, busy with Congress in Washington, nor Son James, ill with a sore throat at Hyde Park. Sadly disappointed, but still hoping that Son Franklin Jr. might appear, the delegates sat down to listen to a speech by Pennsylvania's Governor George H. Earle...