Word: rumoring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...slump in used-car sales and the high price of new cars brought spring rumors that the big motormakers would soon bring out light cars priced at about $1,000. Last week young Henry Ford II followed General Motors in scotching the rumor. Ford is not considering such a car, he said, because motorists "want the best they can get for their money and are too accustomed to the convenience and ease offered by standard-size cars." The average length of motor trips is almost twice what it was prewar, said Ford, and the public is all in favor...
...week, the rumor had flitted along Washington's Pennsylvania Avenue: John L. Lewis was buying the staid, red-chimneyed National Bank of Washington...
...fact that Cowles has been mentioned for the job is sheer rumor, however. The Athletic Committee must convene before a coach is named and it will probably give the job to a younger man who has made a name for himself either as a player or as coach of a small college squad...
...that he had been married for twelve years to former Actress Marcella Swanson, some 30 years his junior. When newsmen learned last week that Shubert had remarried Marcella in February, again in secret, he informed a reporter: "I have no objection to your printing that it is an authentic rumor...
...Rumor has it, moreover, that Walz's contract stipulates at least one win over Harvard if he wants a renewal. Rumor also has it that the aforementioned contract runs out in 1950, and that the coach has become rather fond of New Haven...