Word: leaks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...World War I experience-after piecemeal stopgaps had failed. Now the U.S. was in the same fix. Price Boss Leon Henderson, who had tried to control prices by tackling them one at a time, was like a man with a rotted garden hose; as soon as he repaired one leak, a new one popped...
...Island while a substitute Mephistopheles sang at the winter season's last matinee. Italian-born Basso Pinza, who had eleven touring dates, also had one with an examining board: he was in the hands of the FBI as a potentially dangerous enemy alien. His second wife, American Doris Leak Pinza, and his mother-in-law described him as an enthusiastic, 100% American. "He never even met Mussolini," declared his wife. Fretted her mother: "I hope they don't hurt his feelings. He is very shy and easily hurt...
...Leak in the Center. Three weeks ago Russia claimed that 100,000 Germans were encircled at Mozhaisk, 57 miles west of Moscow, and had been ordered to surrender or die. The beleaguered invaders chose to fight, and for several days Russian communiqués dwelt lovingly on 100,000 Nazis facing annihilation. After fierce street fighting, the Red Armies entered a blazing Mozhaisk last week. But the fabulous 100,000 birds had apparently flown. The Red Army organ Krasnaya Zvedzda mentioned prisoners only once ("more than 100" captured by cavalry-supported ski troops), referred glibly to an unspecified number...
...beginning (the Lend-Lease Act) and the hoped-for end (a just peace everywhere) are easy to see. The path between lies across a morass. But last week such progress had been made that the State Department allowed word to leak out that both Governments would be ready within 60 days to publish a "Declaration of Intentions...
...Nazis laid hands on the letter? Was there a leak at the Kremlin-or a leak at the White House? In Washington, a plausible explanation was that the Russian High Command had broadcast a translation to the Red Army to bolster the troops' morale. The Nazi radio had picked it up, translated it into German...