Word: rumorings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...beam" radio service similar to the Marconi Co.'s present, and the Radio Corp.'s proposed, transatlantic services. The Mackay radio system across the Pacific would be in competition with the Radio Corp.'s present service as far west as Japan, but, said rumor, it would not be operated essentially as a radio competitor but as a cable adjunct, a swift air channel for excess traffic which the cable cannot at present handle without delay, and as a cable auxiliary in case of submarine breakdowns...
...Sacco-Vanzetti case became even more an international affair with a rumor last week that a committee of noted Frenchmen was coming to the U. S. to aid the condemned men. On this committee were reported to be Georges Lecomte, of the French Academy, Louis Loucheur, the Countess de Noailles, onetime Minister of the Interior, Louis Malvy, Professor Paul Langevin and Lieutenant Colonel Alfred Dreyfus (retired...
...perhaps the first time since the ascension of Tsar Boris III (1918), His Majesty managed to slip out of Sofia last week en route for Switzerland before rumors could be started that he went in search of a bride. Year after year correspondents have cried "Wolf! Wolf!" to the effect that he was going to marry this princess or that, whenever Bachelor Tsar Boris has set out for his annual vacation (TIME, July 26, 1926, et ante). This year the Tsar resolved to outwit rumor mongers...
...controls to keep even keels in the rain and gale at the finish, said: "This shows the reliability of the airplane, if anything does." Edsel Ford met with the Tour pilots at a hotel banquet and presented the Ford trophy to "Dean of Pilots" Eddie Stinson. Detroit cherished a rumor that businessmen were going to send Pilot Stinson and his ship on a world tour...
...hero of the week, Commander Richard Evelyn Byrd (see p. 10), did not keep the world waiting to hear what his plans were for the future. Before rumor could put him into the cinema or vaudeville circuits he announced in Paris that during the next eight years he would try to 1) take 50 men (including ten scientists), many dogs and sledges and two planes, to explore the unmapped South Polar region,* which may be largely free of snow in antarctic summer months; 2) to soar over the wide jungles of Brazil, mapping mountains and rivers; 3) cruise the length...