Word: bureau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bushel had sprouted a rash of "wheatleggers." Organized like racketeers, they case a remote granary, on a quiet night back their trucks up close, bore a hole, and fill up. A single haul may be worth as much as $1,300. Said Jake Sims, director of Oklahoma's Bureau of Criminal Investigation: "They've got a better racket than the bank robber. It's not only safer-there's more money...
...present, we expect other more lenient measures will prevent the violations," Police Captain Patrick J. McCarty said last night. He reported the Traffic Bureau hoped appeals to University authorities and warnings to violators would bring enough results to call off the concerted campaign...
Pravda had previously tried to play down the Little Comintern, brushing it off as a mere information bureau. Zhdanov, however, is one of the five top men of Russia and the prime mover in the Little Comintern reorganization, and should know more about it than Pravda. He said that the group was brought into being because the "open expansionist program of the U.S. is reminiscent of the extraordinary and infamous defeated program of Fascist aggressors." General Zhdanov clearly connected the Little Comintern with the main line of Soviet policy. The line itself he expressed with great clarity...
Certainly, there was no immediate prospect that the bottom would suddenly drop out of the economy. In September, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported, new highs were reached both in industrial employment (43,000,000) and industrial wages (an average $50.42 a week). The Federal Reserve Board reported that industrial production also rose three points in September to 185% of the 1935-39 average, only five points below the postwar peak in March. And the Bureau of Agricultural Economics predicted that consumers were not likely to cut down their spending...
Volume is stressed in applications by mail. A graduate recently informed the bureau that, out of 50 requests for employment he had sent out, he received 17 answers and offers for five acceptable jobs...