Word: leaking
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...leave faucets or showers open when they are not actually being used. A drip can waste 15,000 gallons of water a year and a small steady leak can waste 1,000,000 gallons a year. Save water. --from the New York Times, January...
Search at Harwell. For many months security officers of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission have had reason to fear a leak from Harwell. The British were not much impressed by American fears. Last September, however, British counterespionage, working against the Russian espionage, became convinced from what they picked up that atomic information was passing from Harwell to Russian agents...
From the material that had gone to the Russians from Harwell, the FBI concluded that the leak was a top scientist; his selection of material was excellent; he knew what was important and what was not. By November the FBI had another lead: the Harwell informant probably had worked in the U.S. because he knew the "mechanics" as well as the physics of the bomb. (The method of detonating the bomb has always been the gravest U.S. secret.) The field was thus sharply narrowed and the closest surveillance set up over a handful of scientists. Of those, the one most...
...there was the fuel crisis (February 1947), which brought the whole nation to a grinding halt in the depth of a terrible winter. Then came the convertibility crisis (August 1947), when the financial reserves drained away at an alarming rate until exchange control was quickly restored to plug the leak. Finally, there was last September's devaluation...
...Ministry of National Defense examined the report in an effort to appraise the damage done by the leak. It concluded that the report, "while of a confidential political character, could not be considered as national defense secrets." Peyre and the other agents with whom he had dealt were released, and Peyre reportedly set sail for South America. Meanwhile, General Mast had retired, and General Revers remained "at the disposition of the Prime Minister." That was all the government knew about the case, Bidault concluded...