Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, as news of his removal spread, officers crowded his office to shake his hand. A delegation of 250 enlisted men trooped in and a chief petty officer, acting as spokesman, said: "If they can do this to a man like you, what is to happen to us? ... We feel that the Navy is shot ..." Replied Denfeld fervently: "No service and no individual will stop the Navy." Later in the week, when four-star Louis Denfeld took his seat at the Navy-Notre Dame football game in Baltimore, more than 3,000 midshipmen waved their caps and cheered wildly...
...served there on various wartime boards, filled the post of Administrator of Lend-Lease, ably helped to sell Roosevelt's policies to skeptical Congressmen, succeeded Sumner Welles as Under Secretary of State, spread good will, slapped backs and first-named embarrassed British and Russian diplomats. When the aged Cordell Hull had to quit, silver-haired Ed Stettinius, at 44, became the second youngest Secretary of State in the nation's history...
...trapper named Clifton Carrol had found gold nuggets "as big as peas" sticking to a fish wheel he was running in the Yukon River, 20 miles below Fort Yukon. The news licked through the town's old log cabins like fire, blazed in its neon-trimmed bars, spread to the big Army hangars at Ladd Field. It was carried across the Territory by radio. The Fishwheel Stampede...
...Find. The planes made 20 flights the first day, 50 the next, 60 the next. At times they were stacked five deep over sandbars waiting for landings. Tents, fires, laboring men spread along eight miles of riverbank. A trapper's wife opened a coffee shop in a tent. A clothing store sprang up in another. Old prospectors, panning methodically after thawing the frozen ground with fires, found traces of gold dust. But they found nothing else...
Disillusionment spread through the camp: many a man had gambled his season's savings on the stampede, hardly knowing why. The miners demanded that the original nuggets be sent to Fairbanks to be tested. Next day a plane brought copies of the Fairbanks News-Miner with a sad story. All but two of the nuggets were brass. And the two (total worth: $2) were worn, as if they had been carried for a long time in a poke or pocket...