Word: rumoring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ford officials in Detroit last week confirmed a portentous rumor: Ford will go into the manufacture of Army tanks -mediums like those that Chrysler now turns out at the rate of seven a day. Fortnight before, General Motors had announced that it was also getting ready to build mediums...
These announcements were encouraging to the Big Three's suppliers and workmen, now facing an anemic business prospect because of the cut in automobile production. To Britain and Russia, to the U.S. Armored Force, now busy building its fifth Panzer division, the news gave impetus to a Washington rumor: that within a few weeks the U.S. would announce a vast increase in its tank program...
...rail communications south of the Yangtze, is the center of some of the richest rice country in the world (TIME, Sept. 22). Twice the Japanese have tried to seize it; twice they have failed. The city was burned once-by the Chinese themselves, on the strength of a false rumor that the Japanese were on the city's outskirts. Last week the Japanese made their third try for Changsha, and had a good chance of getting...
...spite of a flat warning that their showing in battle would determine whether they would be sent home or kept in uniform, many a ranker, many a subaltern flubbed his battle shots. Through the maneuver area ran the rumor that when next week's battle was over the cleanout of substandard officers would be terrific-perhaps as high...
...first day few of the newsmen found where fighting was going on. Only a few lucky ones ever located the scene of a main action-officers didn't know or wouldn't tell. The press had to work in the haze of rumor, uncertainty and misinformation which invariably surrounds an army on the scene of battle...