Word: bureau
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...advertisements, industries to locate within their corporate limits, Atlanta, Ga., last week was the most jubilant. The Chevrolet Motor Co. had decided to construct a $2,500,000 branch assembly plant in Atlanta;* and Chevrolet President William S. Knudsen had addressed an eminently quotable phrase to the Atlanta Industrial Bureau: "A plant in your city became not only a possibility, but a necessity...
Atlanta, with more than 870 national corporations with branch plants, warehouses or sales offices there, was delighted. The Industrial Bureau advertised: "Here is one location they [transplanted concerns] found abundant raw materials. The finest type of labor in the world-willing, intelligent Anglo-Saxons. Plentiful plant sites. Ample hydro-electric power. Lower building costs. Invigorating climate, permitting efficient, year-round production . . . 8 great railroad systems, with 15 main lines...
JOSEF VISSARIONOVITCH STALIN, 48, virtual dictator of the Soviet Union, is the General Secretary of the Polit-bureau (Political Bureau) of the Communist Party, in which the supreme power of the party is vested. Like his comrades, M. Stalin (Starleen) suffered imprisonment and banishment for his revolutionary activities. He is distinguished by a well-shaped head surrounded by a shock of black hair, just beginning to grey. He has a silky black mustache. His eyes are black, and rarely is there a gleam of merriment in them. His facial features suggest cruelty-a hard mask of oriental ruthlessness...
...Holland Tunnel's greatest problem was not its construction, but its ventilation-how to avoid the poisonous carbon monoxide gas exhausted from motor trucks and cars. Ventilation experiments at Yale, the University of Illinois and the U. S. Bureau of Mines showed that more than four parts of the gas in 10,000 of air was dangerous. To prevent disaster absolutely Chief Engineer Holland installed 84 ventilating fans in four 10 story buildings, two on each side of the Hudson. Part of them blow fresh air into the tunnel floor through vents, others suck vitiated air through ducts...
About 45% of men and women who studied modern languages in college have read no French since graduation; 57% have read no German; and 49% have read no Spanish. This the U. S. Bureau of Education learned last week from 20,000 questionnaires sent out on the subject. Apparently that means that more than half the students study modern languages as an academic chore and make no use of them (except on European jamborees) after they get their degrees...