Word: claiming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...could hire, George Merrick built boulevards, parks, canals, fountains, lakes, swimming pools, golf courses, country clubs, hotels, homes, public buildings. Payrolls of Coral Gables Corp. were $200,000 per week and the advertising and publicity departments were each spending $2,000,000 per year. Any visitor with the remotest claim to fame was wined, dined and dunned with the Coral Gables gospel. Even William Jennings Bryan was persuaded to lecture on Coral Gables' bright sun and blue waters. And in one twelve-month period Coral Gables Corp. sold no less than $98,000,000 worth of property. Much...
Should school savings be treated as preferred deposits? One parent, whose son had a $12 claim, thought they should, took to the courts. Last week the Missouri Court of Appeals decided they should not. That meant that student depositors, who have been paid a preliminary 20% by one bank, 55% by the other, stood to receive about $55,000 when the final distribution is made. Their loss would be about $39,000. Last week Superintendent Gerling, so popular by this time that the school board recently tried in vain to make him accept a $6,000 raise in salary,-* said...
...panacea, physical therapy nevertheless asserts increasingly its claim to being as important to general medicine as are chemistry, drugs and surgery...
...Will Rogers was laid to rest, and I suggested they call them the Will Rogers clovers. The eight-leaf clover I have placed between slides of glass. I plan to have the whole thing mounted in gold and displayed at Franklin Institute if they will claim...
American Can appealed squarely to the draught-beer fanciers, called its product Keg-lined Cans. The lining, made of a secret formula, looked like lacquer. Since it bore no real resemblance to a keg, American limited itself to a careful claim that "people say" canned beer tastes better than bottled. It also dusted off the notion that light hurts bottled beer. Keg-lined Cans look like soup cans, have a special can-opener...