Word: claiming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...same time, however, Hoffman and Congress are failing to hit at our own trade barriers, the economists claim, barriers which are equally effective in preventing any healthy trade between this country and Europe. Europe has some goods which it could profitably sell to the U.S., goods which can bring in badly-needed dollars. Our tariffs are effectively preventing their importation...
...Dulles has been claiming that he is the "architect of American foreign policy," and a great many people seem to believe these preposterous assertion. Exactly what has been Mr. Dulles' connection with this country's foreign policy? He has, it is true, held a variety of positions in the State Department over a period of many years, but so have many other people. Could each of them claim to be "the architect of American foreign policy...
...Judge Harold Medina in his chambers. Two days later he finished his draft of the Medina cover story (TIME, Oct. 24) and sent it along to the editors. It was about (he has lost actual count) his 50th TIME cover story-a record that no other TIME writer can claim...
...single-jet plane which looks something like Republic's Thunderjet. Probable maximum speed of the YAK-17: around 650 m.p.h. Jane's also reports a "research" plane of German design with a maximum speed of nearly 685 m.p.h. This is probably the plane which the Russians claim has passed the sonic barrier...
...nearest neighbors, a handful of primitive tribesmen, know almost nothing about it and avoid it in superstitious fear. They call it Peshawarun, and believe it was abandoned centuries ago when invaders cut the irrigation ditches bringing water from the mountains. The inhabitants fled 700 miles northeast, locals claim, to found the city of Peshawar...