Word: claiming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Maiden Voyage. Off Formosa, a supply officer on the U.S.S. Midway circulated a memo asking the person who had sent a brassiere to the ship's laundry to claim...
...Loyang, in Honan province, twelve primary schools recently heeded the Central Committee's directive that "the future direction is for schools to run factories and farms, and for factories and agricultural cooperatives to establish schools." They banded together, built the "Red Scarf" steel and iron factory, now claim production of 40 tons of metal daily. To ask that summer vacations be spent vacationing is "a decadent viewpoint ... It should be known that after spending a busy period of time in study, taking up manual work over a short period is good relaxation...
...owners say that they would like nothing better than to run their ships under the U.S. flag and manned by U.S. seamen. But they claim that high U.S. wages and taxes force them to fly foreign flags to compete in the international market. It costs $44,000 per month to run a U.S.-flag Liberty ship, $19,000 per month for a Liberian-flag Liberty ship. U.S. tax law requires a vessel to be amortized over 20 years, whereas convenience-flag ships usually do it in ten. The U.S. Maritime Administration recognizes these economic facts of life, tacitly encourages...
...made them more receptive to the Shah's reforms. Though Iran is a Moslem nation, its people are not Arab, and the Shah is thus insulated from the Nasser virus. The Soviet Union, through pudgy Ambassador Nikolai Pegov, has lately purred friendship and slyly supported Iran's claim to Britain's oil-rich Bahrein Island. The Soviet Union sent its dancers and acrobats, sponsored joint Russian-Iranian projects such as locust control on the border, even promised junketing President Kliment Voroshilov would come to Teheran next month in repayment for the Shah's 1956 visit...
...trespasses: "Their seriousness in terms of a threat to our American way of life is certainly obvious." More to the point: the board is working hard with scant funds to solve an awesome juvenile delinquency problem, does not like to be reminded that it can not yet claim any great success...