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Last week Manteno's Director Ralph Thompson Hinton announced that the epidemic was finally cleaned up and that peace had returned to Manteno. The toll: 384 stricken, 47 dead. Engineers, examining the miles of Manteno sewers, suspected a small leak in the tiles, believed that contaminated water had seeped into the wells. Prospect was that Manteno would either build a filtration plant on the grounds or start piping water from Kankakee's safe water supply ten miles away...
...Harold Clayton Urey and his coworkers* at Columbia University have kept canaries within sniffing distance of their apparatus for months. Reason: the chemists were working with two deadly poisons, hydrogen cyanide (used in some U. S. States to execute condemned criminals) and sodium cyanide. If these began to leak from the apparatus, the sensitive little birds would collapse in time for the men to take action. Pacific, round-faced, gum-chewing Dr. Urey and his associates were not interested in poison, they were simply using the dangerous gases to make a harmless but scientifically important substance called "heavy carbon...
...Leak. Although Mr. Chamberlain did not know how the story of the conversations could have leaked out, the angry, outspoken Mr. Hudson had an idea that it was none other than Dr. Wohlthat who had broken his confidence. If that were so, Dr. Wohlthat could scarcely have done a better day's work for his Führer. For it is just such appeasement rumors that weaken Polish, French and general European confidence in Britain's promises to stop further German aggression...
Five years ago Elsy Florence Eva Borders, London housewife, was enraged when her new house, like many another product of Britain's depression building boom, began to leak, creak and crumble. Last year she stopped making mortgage payments to the building society, and when the society sued, personally fought Britain's legal heavyweights to a standstill. "Portia" Borders became the heroine of thousands of Britons who pay high rents for grimy kennels or find their shiny new houses falling apart. Many of them have been making it tough for landlords as increasing numbers of "Tenants' Defence Leagues...
Lightning. More specific reason for the manning of naval anti-aircraft came in another official leak. INS Correspondent H. R. Knickerbocker reported that the British Admiralty apparently had learned of Nazi plans for a "demonstration" bombing flight of 500 German planes just to give Britons some idea of what might be in store for them later. The Admiralty was evidently convinced that German military leaders would try out the Douhet "lightning stroke air attack" theory of war and that the first stroke would be an attempt to immobilize the British Home Fleet...