Word: rumoring
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...into Eastbourne like an explosion of profanity at a church tea. They camped in once-quiet hotel lobbies, queued up at the municipal clerk's office to buy samples of death certificates, trailed police cars and pounded on the doors of frightened old ladies. They dredged up every rumor in town-and their editors printed whatever they thought they could get away with...
...walkers"-the airline lobbyists who have been putting tremendous heat on CAB. Suddenly, Northeast's ordinarily sluggish shares (only 249,600 traded in all of 1955) zoomed; in just one day 24,000 were traded, with the stock jumping from 9½ to 12½. Finally, as the rumor hit front pages and the lobbyists turned their strongest pressure on CAB to change its mind, the agency quickly convened, in a four-hour meeting clinched the matter by taking the unprecedented step of announcing its decision before issuing a formal order...
Last week in Washington the House Military Operations Subcommittee tried to stop a panicky rumor (started by testimony at one of its hearings) about the "dangers" of luminous watch dials, light-switch markers, etc. It published a reassuring letter from Physicist Lauriston S. Taylor of the National Bureau of Standards...
...purpose of the Aerobee-Hi is to probe the upper atmosphere during the International Geophysical Year, 1957-58. Naval spokesmen deny the persistent rumor that it is being groomed as the second stage of the three-stage rocket that will place the U.S. satellite on its earth-circling orbit...
...used to hear a superstitious rumor to the effect that a favorable article in TIME was the Kiss of Death. If this is true, we had a wonderful "wake" at Pereira & Luckman after your Feb. 27 story appeared. We signed agreements for a guided missile research center, two new department stores, a major office building, an atomic energy installation, an electronics research laboratory, and a major naval installation. These construction projects total $77 million, and geographically range from Boston to the far Pacific. What a nice...