Word: bureau
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Adopted unanimously in committee were a Mexican proposal and a Peruvian amendment which bade fair to alter slightly the makeup of the Governing Board of the permanent Pan-American Union at Washington, a bureau which functions between Pan-American Conferences...
...Research Bureau of the Business School has just begun a detailed and complete study of the expenses incurred by grocery manufacturers in marketing their products in the year 1927, the results to the food Industries of the United States. From a study of the accounting practices of the representative firms, a standard classification, of marketing expenses has been developed, and copies have been sent to approximately 1000 grocery manufacturers for use in reporting their figures to the Bureau...
...Research Bureau of the Business School has just completed the first complete and detailed study of interstate power that has ever been made by any organization, the results of which are expected to prove quite valuable to the Electrical industry of the United States. The School has published a book on the study entitled "Interstate Transmission of Electric Light and Power Companies...
...sense, "dissatisfied" that it is inherent in human nature to always want more than one already has and that many of the 2259 simply refuse to become overcome by inertia. But it is equally, easy to blacken the picture by assuming that the Alumni Appointment Bureau has not a complete file of the jobless and dissatisfied...
Continuing its policy of aiding students before examinations, the Phi Beta Kappa Tutoring Bureau has again set up a similar system of tutoring students for the mid-year examinations. In connection with the work of the Reading Period the organization decided to begin work with the opening of the University after the Christmas recess. The tutors have announced that in addition to assisting students for the mid-year examinations they will be willing to guide them in their work during the Reading Period...