Word: rumoring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: A little rumor came to my ears a few days ago that you had printed my letter rebuking you for leaving Maracay off the map of S. A. Evidently my efforts to make it well known weren't appreciated, for the powers that be seem annoyed. No one has seen that copy of TIME [Feb. 11]. I think you have been suppressed. Aren't you flattered? I am. In the event I am asked to leave these parts, I'll come around and tell you large earfuls of lovely gossip that would just sizzle the pages...
...Then perhaps," said her uncle, with his slow, ineffable smile, "there may be nothing in the rumor...
Last week, rumor linked two old Standard Oil units in a $1,000,000,000 merger. Oldest (1866) of existing oil companies, Vacuum Oil Co. was reported ready and anxious to unite with Standard Oil Co. of New York. As Vacuum makes lubricants (Gargoyle Mobiloil) and Standard of New York makes fuel (Socony gasoline), the two companies do not compete. Hence, the Department of Justice may approve their reunion...
Money. Amadeo Peter Giannini of San Francisco (TIME, March 5, 1928) controls through his Trans-America Corp. the 117-year-old Bank of America National Assn., resources $416,000,000. Active, persistent is the rumor that it is to be acquired by the 52-year-old Chase National Bank, resources $1,430,000,000. The merged institution would be the peer, in size, of the National City Bank of New York, although not of the new Guaranty Trust Co.-National Bank of Commerce combination...
...Rumor, last week, busied itself with the future of big Oilman Robert W. Stewart. He might, thought Rumor, merge brains, experience and personality with Horse & Oilman Harry F. Sinclair, either in the Sinclair Oil Co. or in a to-be-constructed oil combination. Colonel Stewart's future is discussable because his potent past was abruptly closed last week at Whiting, Indiana. There, in a public building, he presided with great cheer at the annual stockholders meeting of the Standard Oil Co. of Indiana, of which he was Chairman. Profits for 1928, said he, were $83,000,000, a fifty million...