Word: leaked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bootleg liquor, made 1,583 arrests. Coast Guard cutters were trailing six rum-running ships. Enough evidence had been gathered to hold more than 500 big-time criminals for income tax evasion. Only one Federal agent, in Leesville, Va., had been seriously wounded. Only one "leak" had been discovered-a telephoned tip-off to a Boston opium...
...Assumption Day last August important art news leaked from Moscow to Riga, from Riga to Paris, from Paris to the front pages of the U. S. Press. The news leak: Andrew William Mellon had bought Sanzio Raphael's Madonna of the House of Alba for $1,500,000 from the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (TIME...
Twenty-four hours later, the onetime Secretary of the Treasury broke off his grouse shooting at his lodge in Perthshire, Scotland long enough to deny the Moscow-Riga-Paris-U. S. news leak in the following words: "I have not bought the Alba Madonna or any other Soviet art. This story has cropped up recurrently for the past three years. Each time I have denied...
...double tube, one inside the other. The inside tube or "lung," made of two-ply fabric, floats free under normal riding conditions, has a single small vent through which air escapes slowly when a blowout bursts the outer tube. Thus, it converts the blow-out into a slow leak, allows the driver to continue a mile or more with safety. Chief reason for the venthole: it permits equalized inflation of the two tubes...
...Emperor of Japan. These powers included control of the Chinese Army, the Chinese Navy, the Chinese Treasury, the Chinese Police and other items of sovereignty. Finally Japan demanded that the President of China must keep all this secret, but he, trapped and desperate, had let Japan's ultimatum leak to Correspondent Moore, hoping the President of the United States would do something when he read the dispatch...