Word: bureau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Maloney, 55, head of the 420-man news department, transmutes the boss's notions into type. He is a Phi Bete from Dartmouth, flew with Rickenbacker in World War I, graduated in reporting from the cooperative City News Bureau, from which he hires up to 18 bright young newsmen a year...
...turning point had been reached. In April, said the Department of Commerce, "the uninterrupted [business] expansion of more than a year was halted." The Bureau of Labor Statistics noted "several soft spots which will bear watching." Employment had begun to fall off slightly in the consumer soft-goods industries. Construction, which had been relied on to take up the slack, was one-sixth less in March than it had been in 1946. For the third consecutive month, new construction was under the corresponding 1946 figure...
...Report on Education in cooperation with the Faculty Committee on Broader Studies marks the beginning of the General Education program. Dean Hanford uses words "mad competition" and "parasites" to describe tutoring school situation in Square. Faculty action and publishers' law suits precipitated by CRIMSON campaign and Council reports. Bureau of Supervisors set up to provide legitimate study help...
...campaign done any real good? No one thought so. The Bureau of Labor Statistics last week reported that its index of wholesale prices, which had started down at the end of March, had edged up again for the week ending...
...Commerce reported that manufacturers' new orders, at last count, were lagging behind shipments, while wholesalers' inventories, up from $5 billion in November to $6.7 billion at the end of March, were still rising. In short, current production in many industries was higher than current demand. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that factory employment had dropped by nearly 140,000 between mid-March and mid-April, the first decline since the reconversion low of 15 months ago. Some of this was "seasonal...