Word: claimed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...than one-eighth or one-sixteenth, but at one day's sales in Miami last week the bidding grew so hot that prices spiraled dizzily downward to thousandths, millionths, billionths. then trillionths, finally quadrillionths. Record was set by a man who paid $115.85 for a certificate representing a claim to 1/100 of 1/100 of 1/1,000,000,000,000,000 (quadrillionth) of a small Miami lot. He nosed out another buyer who got tired after reaching 1/90 of 1/100 of one-quadrillionth...
...eight kinds of tax-dodging, all of which he classed as "moral fraud": 1) setting up personal holding companies in the Bahamas, Panama, Newfoundland and other places from which tax money cannot be extradited; 2) buying one-payment life insurance (from a Bahama company), borrowing back the "payment" and claiming tax deductions for interest paid on the loan;* 3) establishing personal holding companies in the U. S., which in spite of special taxes still pays those who are rich enough; 4) incorporating yachts, town houses, country estates, racing stables so that their operating losses can be claimed as deductions from...
When King Frederick Perry I of England abdicated the throne of amateur tennis last autumn to woo the almighty dollar, the heir-apparent was Prince Donald Budge of the U. S., unless .aging Pretender Jack Crawford of Australia could make good his claim. At stake was more than the throne. Without King Frederick, England had little chance of retaining the Davis Cup, and the challenge round for that 37-year-old receptacle, which Australasia and France have each won six times, Great Britain nine times and the U. S. ten times (but not since 1926), would really be the American...
Engineer Strauss & staff declare that the bridge could stand a 'quake twice as bad as the 1906 one, plus a hurricane, without harm. But there are others who claim differently. Chief of these is Dr. Bailey Willis, an 80-year-old Stanford geology professor with a handsome white beard. Two years ago a diver, working on the preliminary survey for the Bridge's great south pier 1,000 ft. from shore came up to declare that the rock was "as soft as plum pudding." Dr. Willis devoted months to proving that the rock on which the pier would...
Staked by two hard-pressed prospectors m the winter of 1935 in Nevada's Slumbering Hills northwest of Winnemucca was a gold claim now known as the Jumbo Mine. For $10,000-$500 down-the Jumbo was sold a few months later to one George Austin, a grizzled oldster who ran the hotel and general store in a nearby flag stop called Jungo on the Western Pacific". Jumbo ore assayed as high as $1,495 per ton. Other members of the Austin family staked adjoining claims, signed an agreement among themselves not to sell out except as a group...