Word: secrets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bettelli of Los Angeles put the late Mark Hellinger's armored car up for sale. The automobile, a 1931 Lincoln eight-cylinder, custom-built town sedan, has one-inch bulletproof glass, armored sides and roof, and has a secret machine-gun compartment. The price...
...During the war, he recalled, reporters plagued the Office of Censorship with demands for more uncensored news; now, however, the press asks no such questions of the Atomic Energy Commission. The Commission, he continued, needs an inquisitive press to prevent the corruption that will come if its activities remain secret...
...feet off the southernmost tip of the continental U.S;, the President splashed in the Atlantic Ocean and smiled at the tropical sky. Using his head-up sidestroke, he wore his glasses, as usual. Once a wave dashed them off his face. To his happy surprise, a Secret Service agent later recovered them as they were washed ashore...
...State Secrets. There was much coming & going. Vice President-elect Alben Barkley departed after spending almost a week. No President and Vice President, said Harry Truman, ever understood each other so perfectly. Mon C. Wallgren, an old crony from the Senate and now the lame-duck Governor of Washington, arrived and gave newsmen an exhibition of his skill at billiards (he was national amateur 18.2 balkline champion in 1929). Air Secretary W. Stuart Symington, whose help in the presidential campaign had been negligible and whose fate now was the secret of Mr. Truman, came & went...
...fast will the XF7U-1 go? It is no secret (and the shape itself would be a giveaway) that it was designed to fly considerably faster than Mach 1. Navy Test Pilot Captain F. M. Trapnell, who is putting the XF7U-1 through its paces, said that he has not yet worked it to top speed or top altitude. He expects, however, that it will prove "the fastest of them...