Word: claiming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...satisfaction that the British Conservative Party has in fact introduced some measures more radical than most thus far sponsored by Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Admitting the President to the generous Santa Claus fraternity of Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, the Morning Post declared, "When all allowances are made, Roosevelt may justly claim to have introduced a new principle of responsibility for individual welfare into American government and to have won widespread acceptance...
Some old-fashioned truck tractors and their trailers weigh ten tons unloaded, 40 loaded. To reduce vehicle weight, trailer makers are experimenting with the new Pullman technique of incorporating the frame in the body. As for safety, truck makers now claim that the driver alone can be improved...
...Harvard Jayvees can also claim a position in the undefeated ranks, although two of their three games have been ties. In their season opener, they fought for a scoreless 60 minutes with Providence. They completely redeemed this performance, however, when they scalped a highly favored Dartmouth contingent 6-0. In this game, Nicholas Mellen, playing guard, blocked a punt which was recovered by Harvard for the touchdown...
...Francisco opening a dapper Italian mounted the conductor's stand proud as Punch, not that he is a great conductor, or that anyone has ever called him one, but because he, Gaetano Merola, could rightfully claim credit for making San Francisco's opera thrive. For his first season (1923) there was not even an adequate stage. Quick to gamble, he spent $20,000 fixing up the old Auditorium, began importing high-priced singers. When that first season ended Impresario Merola went to the hospital with a nervous breakdown. But San Franciscans had liked his performances, wanted more, formed...
...Class 1 U. S. railroads carried 53,202,296 tons of less-than-carload freight shipments. By 1935 volume had fallen 74% to 14,036,154 tons. Chief reason was the competition of highway trucking. Truckmen claim that railroads are foolish to bemoan the decline because the roads must handle such freight at a loss anyway. But railroadmen want all the business they can get. Last January, in an attempt to recoup, railroads in the West and Southwest got Interstate Commerce Commission approval for a "store-to-door" service. At both ends of the rail haul the roads furnished trucks...