Word: leak
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...there was the fuel crisis (February 1947), which brought the whole nation to a grinding halt in the depth of a terrible winter. Then came the convertibility crisis (August 1947), when the financial reserves drained away at an alarming rate until exchange control was quickly restored to plug the leak. Finally, there was last September's devaluation...
TIME (Dec. 26) had reported that the French army's Chief of General Staff Georges Marie Joseph Revers had been relieved of duty because of a leak of French political secrets to IndoChina's Communists. For three weeks after the report was printed, the French government said not a word. A few French newspapers hinted at serious charges against Revers and his friend, retired General Charles Emmanuel Mast. In the cozy Chez Albert, where France's deputies dine in the shadow of the grimy Palais-Bourbon, hushed conversation turned more & more to I'affaire...
...Ministry of National Defense examined the report in an effort to appraise the damage done by the leak. It concluded that the report, "while of a confidential political character, could not be considered as national defense secrets." Peyre and the other agents with whom he had dealt were released, and Peyre reportedly set sail for South America. Meanwhile, General Mast had retired, and General Revers remained "at the disposition of the Prime Minister." That was all the government knew about the case, Bidault concluded...
Actually not leak and gossip, but the hard core of fact and opposition behind them had become intolerably embarrassing for the Administration. The facts: 1) the Joint Chiefs had decided, only to be reversed, that the U.S. should help deny Formosa to the Communists by methods successfully used in Greece; 2) Britain's decision to recognize the Chinese Communists (see INTERNATIONAL) appeared to have put the U.S.-British alignment askew; 3) a Tokyo dispatch reported that the State Department had blithely advised its staff by memo-on Dec. 23, before the President had made his own decision-to play...
...impinging on their wave-lengths, and only one, quickly-remedied complaint has been received from a listener. The radiation regulation is intended merely to confine a coaxial cable system, such as WHRB's, to the small area it serves. But even if WHRB's signals do leak outside of University property, they cannot reach enough persons to offer significant competition to licensed commercial stations...