Word: rumoring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cattle towns of North Dakota, through Montana and high up into the Rockies. When the train stopped at Billings, a railway clerk saw a Scottie out for an airing on the platform, read its identification tag. It was the President's Fala. Soon all Montana buzzed with a rumor that Franklin Roosevelt was on his way to a mid-Pacific conference with Joseph Stalin, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and Wendell Willkie...
...visited the Douglas aircraft plant. In San Diego he rode through the streets so often-on his way to Tom Girdler's Consolidated Aircraft plant, to the Navy's Camp Pendleton, to the home of Son John Roosevelt-that the whole city turned out to watch. One rumor had it that General Douglas MacArthur, in mufti, was a member of his party...
...Leprosy!" was the rumor when 19 employes of California Shipbuilding Corp. at Los Angeles developed gruesome sores on their hands and feet, and some had to have fingers and hands cut off. At least one man seemed certain to lose a foot...
When burns slowly developed on the men's fingers in the next few weeks, a shipyard doctor told the men they had "fungus growths." When they began to lose fingers and suffer dreadful pain, the leprosy rumor started...
...girls, run," Dartmouth will be be in town again. For in spite of transportation tie-ups and accelerated schedules, the usual percentage of Hanover's pleasure-seeking Indians will accompany the Green gridiron machine on its annual sortie into Cambridge. This information from the New Hampshire reservation explodes the rumor which suggested that the cancellation of the traditional one-day holiday for Dartmouthmen would mean a dearth of supporters in the opposition stands on the Saturday after next...