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...Washington is usually handed to the U. S. Embassy in London for transmission in code. When various items began to turn up in Berlin last spring, often to be hurled tauntingly back at Great Britain by renegade Broadcaster William Joyce (Lord Haw-Haw), Scotland Yard agents suspected a leak and tapped the Embassy telephone wires. Within a short time they had heard enough. They arrested Tyler G. Kent, a weak-chinned, 29-year-old American code clerk, who went to London from the U. S. Moscow Embassy at the beginning of the war. In his apartment they found six suitcases...
...last week, no gloomy prophecies about the floating bridge had been fulfilled. No pontoons had sunk, none had been wrenched loose by storms, there was no sign of a leak. Amazed visitors still asked, "How do they float?" but always ventured across. Toll revenue for July and August on the bridge, from cars, busses, trucks, pedestrians, totaled...
...company, Standard of New Jersey, will pay its drafted men full difference in salaries for three months plus all regular benefits. Texas Corp. and Consolidated Edison of New York men will have three months' full pay, then leave of absence. Of those to leak out, most generous were the New York Times, a leading trumpeter for peacetime conscription before the Act was passed, and the New York Herald Tribune. The Times (the Tribune's plan is similar) will pay a drafted employe (for entire training period) "50% of the difference between his salary and the total...
Until last week the Anglo-French Purchasing Board has had little to say about U. S. powder, either purchases or plant construction. From the board's offices at 15 Broad Street in Manhattan, the biggest powder deal to leak out involved a loan of $1,427,000 to Atlas Powder Co. for a new plant (TIME, March 25). But last week, while the most explosive battle in world history brought hell back to the Somme, the Allies announced a really big project: a $20,000,000 powder plant ten miles northeast of Memphis, Tenn., near the village of Millington...
...reporters noted visible signs of emotion: his grave face, the whiteness of his knuckles gripping the Speaker's dais, the trembling of his hand as he twice tried unsuccessfully to put on his glasses. Before Mr. Roosevelt's arrival at the Capitol, House attendants worried about a leak in the sky light just over the dais. Rainwater dripped steadily through the pane containing the State Seal of Oklahoma. Towels were placed to catch the drip. But the Roosevelt luck held: just as the President's car reached the Capitol, the rain stopped. - Joined the U. S. with...