Word: claimed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...provided 7.9%, oil and gas 38.1%. Only lately have hard-coal men bestirred themselves to fight this trend. Anthracite Industries, Inc., supported by $1.000,000 contributed yearly by 70% of the industry, is now at work on improved furnaces, stokers, plastic cement from coal ashes, etc. Anthracite equipment dealers claim a 50% increase in sales in the first nine months of 1937 in 21 eastern cities against a 7% gain in oil burners...
...Maker Loewe then founded the American Anti-Boycott Association, sued the union, won a judgment of $252,000 against 200 union members. Homes and other property of the workers were attached, but the unionists swore they would not pay even if their homes were foreclosed. In the end the claim was settled for $150,000 raised...
...prove his claim, Stuart Chase gives a digest of semantic authorities and then shows how meaningless in the light of their studies are some passages from 'such pundits as Plato, Adam Smith, Karl Marx, President Roosevelt, Walter Lippmann, Henry Ford. He even damns an excerpt from his own writings. As his only ''operational test" he asked 100 people, ranging from schoolboys to Senators, what "fascism" meant to them. They all disliked it, but they had 15 different concepts of what they disliked, including that of a housewife who thought it was "a Florida rattlesnake." Popular ideas...
...door census covering 1,950,000 persons indicated, however, that this was only about 72% of the people who, when ferreted out and interviewed, classed themselves as unemployed. On this basis total unemployed population of the U. S. would be 10,870,000. Said Mr. Biggers: "We do not claim provable accuracy for any one figure. The true number of those who considered themselves totally unemployed . . . lies between 7,-822,912, the number who responded to the registration, and 10.870,000, the number indicated by the enumerative census." Day after the nationwide figures were released, Mr. Biggers issued a supplementary...
...great "speedup" efforts under the system called Stakhanovism (TIME, Dec. 16, 1935). The Economic Council of the Soviet Cabinet investigated last week a case in which Joseph Stalin himself had apparently been hoaxed. The Dictator voted in Russia's recent election for a candidate whose claim was that as a Stakhanovite pacesetter he had increased his milling-machine output 9,000%. Last week the successful candidate's Soviet boss and fellow workers were revealed to have helped him to rebuild and alter two milling machines, greatly overspeeded, into whose cutters he jammed work at 20 times the rapidity...