Word: leaks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...owners of refrigerators and cooling systems now in good working order, the shortage is theoretical. Once sealed in, Freon is good indefinitely, does not wear out or deteriorate. Trouble is that it may leak out. The trade magazine, Electrical Merchandizing, warned its refrigerator-dealer readers: "Make a complete leak test a part of every service call." But citizens whose Freon is leaking may as well order ice. Freon is at the front...
...Allies ever since the African victory. But the Nazis still work at it. Latest product of Dr. Goebbels' propaganda factory is the much-advertised Britain." German Trained military seals "offensive-defensive in Berlin against talk freely about it to neutral correspondents and plenty is permitted to "leak" across Axis borders. Axis troops and small ships have been moved ostentatiously from Baltic to North Sea coasts. Hundreds of high-speed boats, some driven by airscrews, are reported concentrated in Antwerp and Rotterdam. Holland is said to be full of SS troops. U-boats are being concentrated in Danish ports...
Under the constant pounding, the Del Commune began to stagger. Her joints creaked. With every blow her decks seemed to buckle. She sprang a leak under the stern transom. Given time, she seemed bound to shake herself to pieces. "You just cain't go kickin' this river around this way," murmured one of Captain Joe's copilots. "You just cain...
Ezio Pinza of Mamaroneck lives a quiet life with his second wife (the former Doris Neal Leak, daughter of a Larchmont dentist) and their ly-month-old daughter in a rambling eleven-room house...
...stop another leak in the manpower pool, men between 18 and 38 will no longer be permitted to enlist, in either Army or Navy. And the draft will no longer take men over 38, who are almost invariably more useful in industry...