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...chemical reaction that increases its corrosive properties. A good rain storm, Horse Cavers were told, could speed the tank leakage beyond hope of control. Already a heavy fog had carried hydrochloric-acid fumes half a mile away, where they killed a bean crop. Worse still, arsenic compound could seep through the famed Kentucky porous limestone into Hidden River, in the cave beneath the town, and contaminate the area's water supply...
...pails to the factory. That left the water. The sprawling, four-story plant had been built 52 years ago in a district where the city then had no water mains, so it relied on its own drilled well. Old soil pipes might have cracked or rusted through, letting sewage seep into the water supply...
...Robertson lets his confusion seep into his conception of the academic principles of his own University. He wants the Class of '29 to finance an alumni "watchdog Committee" which would bring professors' "socialistic and communistic" views into the arena of public debate, whereupon teachers would either change their ideas or change their jobs. But he forgets there already is such a committee, pledged and capable to screen Communists from employment. Its name is the Harvard Corporation, and it consists of seven alumni whose sound economics not even Mr. Robertson would question. He also ignores the fact that professors he calls...
Slow-moving and small-scale though it was, land reform last spring began to come from Premier Alcide de Gasperi's Christian Democratic government in Rome, and to seep down to the cactus-studded plains of southeastern Italy. At first, only 27 peasants around San Severo received land-four hectares (9.9 acres) each. But it set the peasants thinking. A Communist troubleshooter was rushed to San Severo to quiet the doubts...
...year round.
Last week Byrd put his plan for 1952-53 into the Congressional Record.
It would chop the President's budget by $8.6 billion "without impairing
a single essential function." Main suggestions: