Word: rumors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week a rumor got abroad which forced him to make a personal statement: "For a long time I have had in mind the intention of retiring at the end of 20 years of service, in June...
Through the aviation industry last week ran a sensational rumor: Ford Motor Co., a pioneer in building trimotored airplanes and a principal producer of them today, was "swinging around from trimotored to single-motored theory." As evidence, the report stated, Ford's airplane division was inviting its users to turn in their ships for conversion into single-motored jobs, with a 600 h. p. Cyclone or Hornet engine to replace the three 200 h. p. Whirlwinds. Supposed result: increased payload and speed. Supposed significance : that after five years of tri-motor production the company had found its line...
Last week F. P. A. printed them in his "Conning Tower." Excerpt: Others behind the conflict, safe and far, Still wage with lips their travesty of war; We catch the rumor when the cannon cease. Here at the front, when most of the cannon rage, The dream-touched actors on this mighty stage In silence play their parts, and seem at peace. Lean, swart and homely, wise and sardonic...
...thank them and say goodbye. "I wanted to say something significant to them so that they too would remember me for ever, but I could not utter a word; only tears, bitter tears and comfortless, rolled down my cheeks. Thus I said good-bye to Russia." When rumors that Marie intended to apply for U. S. citizenship lately reached Grand Duke Cyril, pretender to the Russian throne, he threatened to revoke her title and rights. The rumor is neither confirmed nor denied. Marie will tour the U. S., lecture, but will keep her job with Bergdorf-Goodman. She started...
...most of the great bankers of New York gathered on the tenth floor of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Specifically, their meeting was precipitated by the run on Bank of United States. But actually the run was only the climax to weeks of silent withdrawals, months of rumor, two attempts to merge Bank of United States with three other banks (TIME, Dec. 8). Only two days before the run, it was announced that the second attempt to merge had failed...