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...which require no export license) than manufacturers were making, suspected that many of them were really shipping vitreous china water closets (which, being in "tight supply," do require licenses). Last fortnight's raid clinched it. "Really," said a Commerce official "there has been a hell of a big leak...
...miles along the Columbia's lower reaches, families fled their homes. Under the water's relentless weight, dikes became soggy, began to leak in small treacherous rivulets. Downstream from Portland, the dike protecting Woodland (Wash.) broke. Four days later the river cracked the Johns Dike at Clatskenie. At Portland, the backed-up waters of the Willamette River topped the retaining walls, flooded the railroad station and the airport. Trucks and bulldozers worked night & day; troops and volunteers sandbagged every damp spot...
...Leak Stopper. Lee Rubber & Tire Corp., noting the slow leak in the market for tires, cut the price of its biggest-selling line of tires by about 15%. Lee thus hoped to meet the competition of U.S. Rubber, Goodyear, B. F. Goodrich and Firestone. In the last month they had announced new lines of second-grade quality tires at lower prices...
...Vannevar Bush, chairman of the Research & Development Board, and some other top brass, seconded his motion. But newsmen were not so sure that even "voluntary censorship" was needed. Forrestal conceded that there have been only two major leaks since war's end. (One was Aviation Week's story on supersonic flight; the other, a Denver Post article on the disposal of atomic rubbish.) And many a paper feared that voluntary censorship would be an entering wedge. The answer, newsmen felt, is not voluntary censorship but a tightening up of Government organizations to make sure that secrets...
...first two, soon to be published by McGraw-Hill Book Co., will deal with medical aspects of the bomb research. The series will eventually cover everything from the technology of the voracious gas, fluorine (which gnaws holes in glass and makes bricks burn), to leak detectors for gas-tight rooms and compartments. The only information left out: the military supersecrets directly connected with the bomb and its atomic relatives...