Word: leaked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Filled only to 35,000 cu. ft. because of scarcity of hydrogen, some of the bags had difficulty in leaving the ground. The City of Detroit dragged her basket along the field, barely cleared it, came down with a gas-leak 10 mi. away in the Missouri River, luckily upon a tiny island. All the others fought electrical storms through the night. Second to land next morning was the Chevrolet entry (at Jamestown, N. Dak., 410 mi.) after her crew had thrown overboard all ballast including spare clothing to let the basket clear a high tension wire. An hour later...
...Berlin the semi-official Wolff's Telegraph Bureau released news of a Europe v. U. S. agreement at London (possibly an incautious leak from the German Foreign Office...
Early one cold morning last week in Albany, N. Y. three employes of the Street Department rushed to Warren & Philip Streets to hunt a leak in the city's trunkline sewer. Expertly they flipped off the manhole lid. Ten feet below, icy black water, full of awful things, surged on to the Hudson. Once this sewer had been an open creek. When it was enclosed 35 years ago, engineers, according to the custom of the times, gave it great girth for a full current...
...Governor when he comes down from Albany for weekends to live the life of a squire of Hyde Park. He looks after the cattle whose original strain was superintended by his father half a century ago. He sees that the roof of the Episcopalian Church does not leak. He makes sure that all goes well in the brick public school erected by his father. He has new trees planted out, carefully oversees his own tilled acres...
...Somebody tapped the telephone wire. Within two hours Berlin newspapers were on the streets with the news that Germany had served notice that at the next Reparations conference, scheduled for Jan. 25 at Lausanne, Germany would announce that she could pay no more Reparations. Who was responsible for the leak no one knew. No sooner was it published than the rumor was authenticated, first by Chancellor Bruning, then by the British Foreign Office...