Word: rumoring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Recent trends in foreign exchange have been interesting. The franc, after a rise practically to 7c, broke sharply, when the rumor of a Ruhr settlement was dissipated. Marks are still stabilized by German government operations, despite a current note increase of 401 billions, and the report of a deficit in the Reich budget of 7,100 billions. Invitation to American investors to participate in a 50 million dollar German government loan, non-interest bearing but retirable at 120, seems to have obtained little response here. Proceeds of the loan will be mainly used for combatting the French in the Ruhr...
...Rumor has it that the lost fortune is anything from $1,250,000 to $2,500,000. All that is definitely known about the late President's wealth is that he left an estate valued...
...rumor has it the largest pot in the continuous poker game operated by members of the 67th Congress was $32,000; another, that it was $24,000. [The game is played in a small building near the Department of Justice...
...report of wheat on the farms, forthcoming March 8, would show an excess of about 30 million bushels over the similar surplus of last year. But with this exception, staple commodities almost all tended toward higher prices, sugar especially showing strength. Already there is talk, which may prove mere rumor, of a merger among some of our leading sugar companies...
Sixteen large churches have burned, and smaller fires have been numerous. At first the blame was laid upon overheated furnaces or defective wiring. But, as fire after fire occurred and only Roman Catholic churches were destroyed, incendiarism was suspected. Staid insurance journals, never influenced by casual rumor, regard human agency as probable; fire insurance underwriters will insure Catholic churches only to a limited extent and at high rates...