Word: claimed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Each presentation of 'Knickerbocker Holiday' is a new experience both for the actors and those among the spectators who are seeing the play for the second or third time. I've spoken to some people who've seen the play more than ten times, and they claim that they discover something novel with each succeeding visit...
Ukrainians claim that they number 6,000,000 in Poland...
...billion kilowatt-hours of hydroelectricity in 1938. Potential maximum of all practicable waterpower sites has been estimated around 325 billion kwh. Though completion of the New Deal's dam program will not harness all this, experts foresee a big surplus over municipal and irrigation power needs. They also claim they know how to mop it up-build electrochemical factories near damsites, with hungry electricity-eaters like furnaces to produce calcium carbide (from limestone and coal electrically heated to 4,000° F.), acetylene, alcohol, acetone, fertilizers, insecticides, plastics. One modern, three-electrode calcium carbide furnace requires 225,000 amperes...
...week's end Benny Goodman could claim technical victory. Box-office receipts were approximately equal ($24,000), but the Paramount, where Artie Shaw was playing, had a 99? top to the Shubert's 75?. Addicts of Shaw's exciting recordings of Begin the Beguine and Backbay Shuffle were disappointed by their idol's cold stage personality. Goodman's matchless trio and quartet and the smooth rendition of old favorites like One O'Clock Jump and Don't Be That Way won back wavering allegiance...
...Rooters Claim No Sour Grapes...