Word: hinting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When National Guard mobilization began last fall, many an officer told his men to forget that stuff about a mere year in the Army; they could count on being in "for the duration." Last week the War Department let drop a hint that "the duration" would run six to twelve months beyond a year. Announced reasons: equipment shortages, delays in mobilization had cut down actual training time so that it would take at least six months more to whip the Guardsmen into real soldiers...
...Wall Street winced as one. The Wall Street Journal voiced a shadowy but growing fear: "Mrs. Roosevelt is increasingly active; watch her for tips on policies. Her discernible influence on the President is indirect but important. She talks to officials . . . has been calling on bigwigs . . . gave the first hint of the Lease-Lend Bill...
...high-living Marshal had run out of pocket change. So his old steel friends in the Ruhr dropped a hint: for a license under the Four-Year Plan to develop Salzgitter's low-grade iron deposits, they would pay off his debts. But Planner Göring had a better plan: he decided to get into the steel business himself, boasted that he would make his company "the greatest industrial enterprise in the world." How good Göring has made his boast was told last week in Social Research by Dr. Kurt Lachmann, ex-London correspondent...
...first time since the beginning of the war, an Italian offensive was being attempted. And there was an even more ominous sound than the crescendo of Italian guns. It came from Rome. It was a hint that the main thing Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini discussed in their meeting on Jan. 20 was a joint general staff. This might mean substantial German help in Albania...
...possible hint of a forthcoming grand offensive in the Mediterranean was contained in a succinct communiqué from Vichy...