Word: bureau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...release all grain on hand or on order. Estimated savings: ten to 20 million bushels of grain. The nation's bakers announced that they would save up to 7% on their bread by refusing to take back stale leftovers from retailers. The National Grange, the American Farm Bureau Federation and the National Council of Farm Cooperatives produced a five-point program to save grain by feeding less, eliminating waste and marketing lighter stock...
...Census Bureau reported that the U.S. had gained approximately 2,279,000 residents in 1946, the greatest one-year population spurt in its history. Estimated total U.S. population...
...Lecoq and Sherlock Holmes, rather than to Pitt and James Madison) were trying to unravel the real meaning of what happened when 17 men and a woman met at a hunting lodge in Miszlakowice, Poland, and there created a thing that Communists called the "Cominform" (meaning Communist Information Bureau) and which most of the rest of the world called the "New Comintern" or the "Little Comintern." To help them figure it out, the detective-statesmen had Dr. Watsons who were experts in everything from gamma rays to Lenin's writings. Piecing together a clue here and a clue there...
...between Communist parties was not close enough. Mistakes had been made. Italian and Yugoslav Communist parties had differed over the Trieste issue. Worse, the parties in France and Italy, fat with postwar recruits, showed a certain sluggishness in jumping to the Moscow whip. Public adherence to an international "Information Bureau" would make deviation more difficult...
TIME'S Paris Bureau summed it up: "The Polish declaration will lose hundreds of thousands of voters for the French Communists. But the smaller the party gets, the more dangerous it will become. The immediate results will be an intensification of active opposition and the hastening to office of a strong anti-Communist Government of which the likeliest leader is De Gaulle. Now the Communist party in France moves definitely into final opposition-until it can assume sole power. The strength of an anti-Communist government here depends on the vigor and speed with which declared U.S. policies...