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...raid drill brought apparatus ranging from a hook and ladder and eight ambulances to four garbage trucks, two snowplows, and a paddy wagon to Cambridge Common yesterday afternoon...
...regular flow of documents from Communist sympathizers not only in the Department of State but in the Bureau of Standards, the Navy and at the Aberdeen Proving Ground. He had had them photo graphed on microfilm and had turned over the films to the Soviet spy apparatus. He said he had had two sources in the State Department: one, it developed later, was Henry Julian Wadleigh; the other, he said, was Alger Hiss...
...Dealer David Niles, a relict of the Hopkins & Roosevelt days and a Truman adviser on handling racial and religious minorities, finds the Little Cabinet a more efficient apparatus than anything Roosevelt had: "While it's true that everybody wants to be the king's favorite, there is not the sniping such as was S.O.P. during the old Roosevelt days. You don't wake up and find the President has given your assignment to four other people. That makes for satisfaction and holds down the bitter rivalry that delighted Roosevelt...
Later, the apparatus wanted Hiss to speed up the flow of stolen documents. "I told Mr. Hiss that we wished to have papers brought out every night." Chambers said this was promptly done. Some of the secret documents were typed copies of originals. Then Chambers repeated another old accusation: "Mrs. Hiss typed the documents. Mrs. Hiss was always restless in the underground and sought activity for herself...
...pile's uranium rods, it must be separated from the uranium by a chemical operation which is delicate and difficult, because the rods are fiercely radioactive. All the manipulations in the refining process must be performed by remote control from behind massive shields. Every bit of apparatus that has been used in refining plutonium is poisoned and dangerous to handle...