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...hands. But Morrison's worries were nearly over. Swiftly, Dupree and his crew cut the grain, loaded it into their trucks, and hauled it to the elevator a few miles away. When a crack in the truck body let out a thin trickle of wheat Morrison blocked the leak and bent down to scoop up the spillage. "Worth almost $2 a bushel," he muttered. "I want...
...Hysteria. At the home of Mr. & Mrs. H. C. F. Harwood, near Regent's Park, one of London's few refrigerators (about one British family in 35 owns one) chose this crucial moment to spring a leak. To save their Pekingese bitch, Anna, from asphyxiation, the Harwoods hung her out of the window in a string bag. Whether Anna survived the treatment without hysterics was not reported, but as the weekend approached with cooling thunderstorms, the ever-helpful Evening Standard had a final word of advice for other dog lovers. "Dog hysteria," pronounced the Standard, "has its root...
...years since V-E day the U.S. has never let its sympathy for Europe's 1,000,000 displaced persons interfere with its airtight immigration laws. At the first hint of a leak last summer, Mississippi's frog-voiced John Rankin had trumpeted the considered opinion of many another quota-conscious Congressman: "There are too many so-called refugees pouring into this country bringing with them communism, atheism, anarchy and infidelity." But last week a House Judiciary subcommittee gingerly got ready to hold hearings on a bill by Illinois' Congressman William G. Stratton, which would admit...
...Congressmen had left the White House elaborately sworn to secrecy. But the next day's morning newspapers carried a hint of the news. Evening papers carried a little more: a ''leak" from London. The Foreign Office had informed Washington that Great Britain, her economy nearly wrecked, could no longer maintain the security of Greece. That had been the subject of the White House conference. The story unfolded with no warning thunderclap, but in an atmosphere of such calm that the nation scarcely realized that a crisis had been reached...
Scientists connected with Brookhaven are careful to say that the laboratory will not develop new atomic explosives, but will concentrate on making nuclear physics benefit humanity. But the project will do no harm to the national war potential. Atomic secrets (if any still exist) may yet leak or be rediscovered abroad. The job of Brookhaven and other U.S.-sponsored laboratories is to develop atomic know-how so fast that the U.S. lead cannot be overtaken...