Word: leaks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...foot ditch currently disrupting traffic at the intersection of Cambridge and Broadway Streets, opposite Memorial Hall, will be gone by tonight. Workmen today were filling in the excavation after repairing a leak in a five-inch pipe which returns condensed water from the Rindge Tech heating system...
...news had been labeled "Top Secret" but it had leaked out. One leak was Colorado's Senator Edwin C. Johnson, member of the Congressional Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, who unwarily blurted it out on a television program in an argument for tighter security regulations. The news: the Russian atomic bomb contained plutonium...
With the new electronic locator, Robinson claims all the problems of location are solved. When a leak or clogged pipe develops, a man with the detector walks over the suspected area systematically, listening to a buzzing sound through earphones attached to the detector's receiver. As he walks over a buried pipe the buzzing increases in intensity...
...into a cramped, unventilated closet, use a mouthpiece which has been breathed into by thousands of people? Why not a two-way loudspeaker instead? Lincoln Steffens advised his son, who was worrying about what remained to be done, that nobody had yet made a faucet that didn't leak. Well, it no longer leaks−but why not do something about the faucet itself? Is it necessary...
Mexican silver production is strictly regulated by the government, which imposes a 15% tax on exports to support the value of silver in the Manhattan free market.* For more than a year Mexican treasury officials had suspected a big leak in silver shipments. Despite controls, there always seemed to be enough high-grade Mexican silver in Manhattan to cause prices to fluctuate between 70 and 77.5 cents an ounce. Earlier this year, Beteta put some of his best investigators on the problem...