Word: secretion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...secret was there for anyone who would listen. Around the little Hotel San Luis on Havana's Belascoáin Street, the talk was loud & long about "going to Santo Domingo to fight Trujillo." Mostly the talkers were young Cubans out for adventure and a chance to strike at dictatorship. Some may have been Communists; some were Communism's most ardent enemies. But there were also Dominicans. For weeks Dominican exiles had been trickling into Havana, by plane and boat from the U.S., Puerto Rico, Venezuela and Guatemala. Something was up, and that something was a filibuster...
...What? But what was the story? In two months of secret proceedings the committee had tried to find out 1) if Hughes and his wartime partner, Henry Kaiser, had used pressure to get and keep war contracts, and 2) what they had done with the $40 million the Government had given them to build war planes...
...Matyas Rakosi is Deputy Premier in a "coalition" Cabinet. Most of the other ministers belong to the Independent Smallholders' Party (which polled 59% of the votes in Hungary's last free elections). Actually, after the recent jailing of many of Rakosi's Smallholder colleagues by the secret police (TIME, June 9), the other ministers are virtually his prisoners. Last week, the A.P.'s Daniel De Luce interviewed this successful Communist statesman. De Luce reported that Rakosi "is full of belly laughs, looks as short and tubby as Fiorello LaGuardia, cracks out commentaries faster than Walter Winchell...
...secret that AM receivers can be hooked into the FM band, but the converters that do this trick have sold for $50 & up, mostly up over $100. Last week Pilot Radio Corp. offered the public its Pilotuner, by far the cheapest converter yet marketed. Cost: $29.95. Said a top FM engineer: "It's the best value for the money so far. It makes a striking improvement in an AM set, though it still isn't up to a regular FM receiver...
...Secret Service men were hastily stationed in the tourist-packed gallery. The President, unannounced, stepped into the chamber.* Grinning like a schoolboy about to receive his lettered sweater, he walked to his old desk. Senators and visitors gaped, then applauded...