Word: claiming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Port Orford all stirred up last week was a 70-year-old Oregon miner named Robert Harrison. Miner Harrison asserts that he found the meteorite as a boy of 14, when he was staking out a nickel claim in the mountains with his father. Oldster Harrison also declares that he came upon the meteorite again in 1900, that he still remembers exactly where it is. Slowed up two years ago by an injury. Miner Harrison was feeling spry enough last week to figure on going after the lost meteorite...
Contra this hearsay assertion, unsupported by facts, that France possesses the Paul Bunyan of banners, I advance the claim of Michigan to that distinction...
...morale is high, and every Chinese has learned to sing war songs. As for Japan's Chinese hirelings in "puppet" government jobs, Captain Carlson declared: "Chinese guerrillas are very charitable in their views toward the Chinese puppets, declaring that most of them are loyal Chinese at heart. They claim to be in constant communication with many of these Japanese hirelings...
...Japanese officers in the area were incensed. "It is crazy," one of them exploded to a correspondent, "for the Russians to attempt to retake Changkufeng!" Meanwhile Moscow, with something at last to boast about, admitted heavy fighting, announced that the Russian frontier had been "cleansed" of Japanese, a claim which the Japanese promptly denied. In Tokyo, the Foreign Office described conversations between its Ambassador to the Soviet Union and Foreign Commissar Litvinov which left the diplomatic situation...
...officials and representatives of 50% of U. S. flour production. Edward Jacob and Edgar Martin Miller, father and son, Missouri millers, invented the process; they interested Dan Brown, former Hearst circulation manager, who in turn organized Morris Mills, Inc. two years ago and directed subsequent tests. Sales claims for the germ flour: added nutritive value, superior aroma, flavor, palatability, long-keeping quality without preservatives, 25% reduction in amount of shortening needed. Chief claim: germ flour improves metabolism so greatly as to increase consumption; if everybody ate an extra slice of bread each day, 50,000,000 extra bushels...