Word: rumors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...statistician through almost every phase of the company to the presidency three years ago, spends most of his time working his top-level contacts in big business for inside tips. As a matter of routine, every one of S. & P.'s employees is expected to report any business rumor he hears. One employee's wife, a dietitian at a major aluminum fabricating plant, reported worker unrest over the quality of food served in the company cafeteria. By the time the stomach rumblings finally erupted into a 47-day strike, S. & P. subscribers were well warned...
Most of the time, S. & P.'s 30 security analysts do not have to rely on rumor. A steady stream of solid factual data flows into Hudson Street from the company's 50 hard-probing field men across the country who make regular calls on every company that sells its stock to the public. One such call turned up, four months in advance, the invaluable news that A. T. & T. was planning a stock split. Standard & Poor's man got his scoop by cannily giving A. T. & T. executives all the reasons he could muster against...
...Flying Eagle. The Holy Week of which Aragon writes is the chaotic, rain-drenched and rumor-filled week between Palm Sunday and Easter in 1815. Napoleon, having just escaped from Elba, was marching up to Paris to begin the historic Hundred Days, which were to end with Waterloo. And as Napoleon approached-"the Eagle flying from steeple to steeple," rallying to his standard the regiments sent against him-King Louis XVIII, fat and fatuous, was fleeing north toward the Belgian border amid a confusion of loyal musketeers and grenadiers...
...regrettable that TIME didn't verify the rumor it published [Aug. 25] regarding me coaching the charming Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy. I have never had the pleasure of meeting or coaching Mrs. Kennedy...
...three cities has there been the necessary citywide reaction against violence. Worst of all, as summer wears on and interracial ugliness increases, there is no practical way to counteract the crudest antagonist stalking the dark city streets. Said Chicago Police Sergeant Thomas Marriner last week: "Our real enemy is rumor...