Word: claimed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lamentably, Mr. Dohr has not only committed an error of emphasis, but one of accounting. At the end of 1936 the net worth of Johns-Manville was $35,849,663. The preferred stock has prior claim to $9,000,000 of this, leaving $26,849,663 for the common. Mr. Dohr divides this figure by the 850,000 shares now outstanding and gets a book value of $31 a share. He forgets that the common was sold for $100 a share. As the capitalization increased to 850,000 shares, assets increased by $10,000,000. Mr. Dohr should have divided...
Willie Kendall has made as remarkable a tank record as has been seen in America for many years. His chief claim to greatness lies in his versatility. His best official times in sprints and distances, for example, are the following: 23.2 in the 50-yard free-style, the Australian record; 53.8 in the 100, although unofficially he has done 52.2; 1:22.4 in the 150, an American and world's record; 2:11.2 in the 220, although his best unofficial time is 2:08; 4:46.4 in the quarter-mile (20-yard pool), an intercollegiate record...
...master of a solid bloc of faithful votes. Tom Pendergast has long been the No. 1 Democrat of his State. But in 1932 St. Louis' Bennett Champ Clark went to the Senate without his help and Boss Pendergast has since had to sign a working agreement to claim patronage only in the western half of the State. The truce has lately been strained, to the dis pleasure of Tom Pendergast. First strain came when young Maurice Milligan, whose Brother Jacob was defeated by Pendergast's Harry Truman for the Senate, was appointed U. S. Attorney for the western...
Czechoslovakia is today a lumpy sausage of democracy completely surrounded by authoritarian regimes. Last week a book* was published which made the striking claim that the skin holding the Czechoslovakian sausage together is its school system. Stamped on that skin is the label: Made...
...complex case only seven hours, which was not enough time to give each defendant the individual consideration specifically ordered by Judge Stone. Meanwhile, in Washington, a Senate committee, studying a bill to require separation of marketing petroleum from producing, refining and transporting it. heard monopoly-hating Senator Borah claim that "four or five big oil companies" control the price of gas and oil and have done so "for four or five years...