Word: rumoring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Most widely believed (by 45%) was a rumor that a prominent Government official has three cars and a large underground tank filled with gasoline for his personal use. Another (believed by 13%): that producers' storage tanks are so full that tankers are dumping gasoline...
Uruguay made no official comment. Rumor had it that Congressmen would soon be recalled from summer vacations to declare war in a special session...
...Rumor: three well-to-do Denver citizens have recently died for lack of hospital care. Fact: most Denver hospitals are so crowded that they have waiting lists of surgical patients. Yet the 700-bed municipal Denver General Hospital has 250 empty beds. To City Councilman Edward J. Mapel, the solution to this problem looked simple: open the city hospital to any paying patient...
...Securities & Exchange Commission, well aware that Russia has repeatedly refused to recognize the Tsarist debt, was more suspicious. Quietly, it set out to see who was: 1) buying & selling the bonds; 2) spreading the rumor...
...York, there was some ripe political speculation. Handsome, strapping Brigadier General William O'Dwyer, late of the Allied Control Commission in Italy, returned to his $20,000-a-year job as Brooklyn's District Attorney. Bill O'Dwyer promptly squelched a rumor that he had returned to civvies to run as Democratic candidate for Mayor of New York next fall against Fusionist "Butch" LaGuardia...