Word: mumming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...important chunk of that business was Mr. Soong's brand-new, still secret treaty with Soviet Russia (see FOREIGN NEWS). On its content and origins, Prime Minister Soong was mum. But Washington buzzed with accounts which threw the clearest light yet on the nature and purpose of official U.S. policy in Asia. The gist...
Last week Vanadium's president was mum. He would discuss neither his company nor its future. But investors would no longer ignore it: in three days after Hiroshima was bombed, Vanadium's stock was pushed up from $25½to $33 ⅜a share. Next day it went down to $28⅜ as speculators took their profits...
...father had ever "promoted or assisted" his private affairs, branded such a charge as "a deliberate, infamous lie." To the new charge that he had helped T.W.A. get a choice postwar plum- a charge trumpeted on the floor of Congress by Michigan's Paul Shafer - he was mum...
...commission had the touchy job of picking a permanent world headquarters. The British favored Copenhagen, the Russians Prague. The U.S. Government had kept discreetly mum. But the feeling in Washington was that San Francisco stood a good chance, Philadelphia a very poor one. The reasons were enough to enrage all Philadelphians: the climate was deplored, the City of Brotherly Love was entirely too close to Washington (too much U.S. influence) and New York (Wall Street, etc.). Perhaps prematurely, everybody had long since counted out Geneva...
...fares, the airlines were mum. But not until they can put into operation their high-speed, deluxe planes now on order, such as Lockheed's Constitution, is there much chance that they will get fares somewhere near the dream rates-$100-$150 one way - which the airlines have been glibly quoting...