Word: rumoring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chief of Ordnance Charles M. Wesson. Cagey, capable Major General Wesson stood up for the Garand ("the best semi-automatic rifle ever considered by the Army"). When Congressmen wanted to know who originally sponsored the Garand, General Wesson passed the buck to the Infantry. He also confirmed a rumor which reflects more grave ly on Army bureaucrats than on their new rifle. In the fourth year (1939) of Garand tests, the Army discovered a de fect so serious that a new barrel had to be designed. As of last Feb. 16, the Army had on hand 28,088 Garands with...
...Said Wall Street rumor, at week's end: Mr. Willkie will go to the Republican convention, there deliver a self-starting speech that will be the obverse of Bryan's famed "Cross of Gold" oration, in effect say: "You shall not crucify the spirit of American enterprise on a cross of bureaucracy...
There, last week, Editor Reynolds, in a spacious cell that looked out on one of Montana's traveling gallows, awaited trial. Nobody knows where the Pink Reporter is printed. It has been farmed out to various print shops in Montana, now comes (according to rumor) from a press somewhere in North Dakota. Not a copy was to be found last week on Montana newsstands. But in his cell in Gallatin County jail was a long table covered with pencils and copy paper, and Tip Reynolds at week's end was busily editing his next issue...
...Trust, Ltd. served dismissal notices to its employes, announced voluntary liquidation. Reason: the war had thrown a monkey wrench into its sensitive international sales organization and the take is too small. For last fortnight's Sweeps on the Grand National, only ?224,500 was collected. In Dublin, rumor had it that Promoter McGrath (Duggan is dead) will soon organize a new company-to establish an Irish Monte Carlo, known as Killarney...
From the shores of the Skagerrak Swedes heard terrific explosions-depth charges, torpedoings, air bombings. Rumor fathered a mythical sea fight in the Skagerrak between battle fleets...