Word: leaked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...under existing laws." To finance this and other marketing projects, the Grape Control Board had obtained from the Federal Farm Board a loan of $9,000,000. Chairman Legge of the Farm Board laughed long & loud at the suggestion that he, a Federal officer, was helping to promote a leak in the Prohibition law. But it did seem as if wine were about to return to the U. S. legally and on a large scale...
...colored envelopes figures on crop conditions and prospects from 120,000 crop reporters throughout the land. This great bundle of reports, from which official U. S. crop estimates will later be distilled, the Secretary stows away in a great safe. No government documents are accorded greater secrecy; a "leak" might enable grain and cotton speculators to make large and illegitimate profits. On estimate day (generally the tenth of the month) the Crop Board under William Forrest Callander marches into a large top-floor room in the Department of Agriculture building, seats itself around tables on which stand computing machines. Under...
...large crowd of airmen, newshawks, photographers assembled last week at Curtiss Airport, Valley Stream, L. I. for their first view of the Curtiss-Bleecker helicopter. For four years, at a cost of $250,000, it had been under secret development by Curtiss Aeroplane & Motor Co. A little oil leak prevented a trial flight, but young Designer Maitland Barkelew Bleecker sat at the controls, grinned in happy anticipation as the four wings revolved horizontally above his head...
...made ready to study larger, more intangible diplomatic factors involved, beginning with the confidential exchanges between President Hoover and Premier MacDonald which last year laid the ground work for the London parley. Secretary of State Stimson, when the committee requisitioned this secret correspondence, was alarmed lest its contents leak out to the public through the garrulity of some anti-treaty Senator...
...Weather Fade Out. As finally divulged last week, the true story of the leak began with Correspondent Kirk idling near the door from which the Cabinet emerged after making their historic decision. Entering casually into hot weather gossip with statesmen he knew, Mr. Kirk remarked to no one in particular, "I suppose the Cabinet agreed to arrest Gandhi...