Word: claimed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...higher prices for the lowest priced cars to offset, in part, the rising cost of automobile materials; 2) independent front wheel suspension ("knees")-old to Europe-to make cars of General Motors, Chrysler and others "easier riding"; 3) streamlining in a big way-Walter Chrysler's bid to claim the distinction that he made the buggy a bugaboo. A few years ago a 22-year-old graduate of the University of Texas named Byron Cecil Foy began selling Fords in Dallas. Norval A. Hawkins, Ford's salesmanager, was staging a nation-wide sales contest and to everyone...
...Even curtain calls are not unknown in the motor business. Last week Ford's private show in Manhattan (TIME, Dec. 18) took a curtain call and a week's encore. Ford press agents duplicated in all but formal phrase the theatrical claim: "SMASH HIT! 100 BEAUTIFUL MODELS...
...price. So far as northern Ireland is concerned, the proportionate amount of Scotch consumed is admittedly greater than in southern Ireland, but since this is the smaller section of Ireland, and since even there the majority consume Irish whiskey, you will see that it is absolutely incorrect to claim that the discerning Irishman drinks Scotch, as equally do the discerning whiskey connoisseurs in other countries...
...Pearl, Conductor Gustav Strube at his heels, Critic Mencken chased the rowdies to the street, collared them, had them jailed overnight. Next day he made them sign a release, crowed: "If they're Communists I don't trust them. They'll go back to Washington and claim they won a victory...
...prevent strapped States from piling additional imposts on liquor, the President was counseled to waive in their favor all Federal claim to "occupational" licensing fees on breweries, distilleries, wineries. Likewise it was suggested that the Treasury collect all gallonage liquor taxes at one time and divide up with the States later...