Word: bureau
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Harden Franklin Taylor, 38, went from Government work (Bureau of Fisheries) to aid a sick industry (fisheries). Fish, even packed in ice, lost flavor, spoiled quickly, could be sold only near the coasts. The trouble was, he discovered, that the fish were frozen too slowly. So he invented a refrigerator for quick freezing. Now frozen fish are shipped throughout the country, housewives can vary their menus, and the Atlantic Coast Fisheries who supported the research makes money...
Barometrical buoyancy indicates two days at least of fair weather over the coming weekend. Reports of weather bureau authenticity obtained last night for southern New England and New York predicted clear skys with fresh, variable winds and a slightly dropping thermometer for today...
...survey of the records of the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau reveals a doubling this year of the number of cases completed at this time last year. The records also show a similar doubling occurring several times in the last three years, both in the figures for the first month and a half of each year and for the total number of cases handled in a year...
...tenant cases and four will cases. Other miscellaneous cases were a suit against a former tenant who smeared creolin all over the wall of her apartment when forced to leave, and a suit by a woman who fell in a badly lighted stairway, for whom the Legal Aid Bureau...
...beam at whatever point on earth he pleases. His previous inventions have been the invaluable radio compass, the radio fog signal system, the mobile radio beacon to protect ships in fog, the decremeter which measures wave lengths and dampens radio oscillations, the Kolster radio receiving set. He created the Bureau of Standard's radio section and is its chief. He is chief research engineer of the Federal Telegraph Co. and its allied companies...