Word: leak
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...utilize modern inventions in the American Navy. "Of course the personnel takes an important part in this process," the Secretary remarked, and to illustrate his point he remarked on the importance of the work of a mechanic, who, by doing a poor riveting job, allows oil to leak from a submarine. Thus a slick is made on the surface, and the submersible ship is betrayed to her enemy...
...second from Lake Michigan, to flush away Chicago's sewage through a drainage canal emptying into the Des Plaines River which enters the Illinois River, which enters the Mississippi. Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York, complaining that Great Lakes levels were injuriously lowered by this leak at Chicago, sued to restrain Illinois in the U. S. Supreme Court. To Illinois' aid came Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, Louisiana, Mississippi and Arkansas. These co-defendants maintained that Mississippi Valley navigation had been benefited by the extra flow from Lake Michigan more than Great Lakes navigation had been hurt...
...possession of the Club. It was purchased at Wichita, Kansas, and flown to Boston by A. N. Pabst 3L. and M. N. Fairbank '28 in a successful five-day trip, in which the only mishap was a forced landing at Troy, N. Y., caused by a small leak in the fuel tank...
...hostility between the U. S. and Mexico (TIME, April 11) led to the discovery of 300 stolen Department of State papers. These were said to have been sold by a U. S. employe to President Calles of Mexico. The Department of State hushed up the incident; announced that the leak had been found, that President Calles had returned the documents, that Mexico and the U. S. understood each other. Several of the stolen papers were called forgeries by the Department of State...
Meanwhile the British cruiser Comics had steamed up the Rio Tejo (Tagus), and was keeping London and the world informed about events at Lisbon with her wireless. It appeared that for two days the Carmona Government had deliberately halted all the railways, posts and electric communications, lest uncensored news leak out of Portugal. When the situation cleared up it was found that the U, S. Consul at Oporto had been extremely lucky. Five minutes after he left his room in the Grande Hotel do Porto†† a bomb was light-heartedly tossed in at the window by a passing...