Word: bureau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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TIME'S editors decided to print her letter as a minority example of one kind of U.S. thinking on this subject. Before doing so they asked TIME'S Los Angeles bureau to check the letter's authenticity. The bureau...
Wilson's appointment follows a year as director of the University of North Carolina press, preceded by four years' service aboard the carrier Enterprise and in the Bureau of Aeronautics in Washington...
...Congress had its busiest week to date. The House passed Harold Knutson's tax reduction bill, thus immeasurably speeding up a final determination of the tax question. It also shouted through a cut-rate Labor-Federal Security Appropriation bill, over attempts to scuttle the U.S. Conciliation Service, the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the NLRB. The House joined the Senate in extending a modified Second War Powers Act until June 30, ending Selective Service, and appropriating $9,000,000 to help Mexico fight its foot-&-mouth disease epidemic...
Thunderclouds-and the plane-racking turbulence that goes on inside them-are a constant menace to a pilot. He cannot always tell whether the cloud ahead is dangerous or not. Last week both the airlines and the U.S. Weather Bureau were peering into clouds with radar-which seems to be the way to spot a genuine thunderhead full of dreaded turbulence...
...waves. The fierce air currents do not show up on the scope, but the presence of large masses of raindrops is a strong indication of turbulence. A plane equipped with the proper radar can steer a safe course, even at night, among a herd of thunderstorms. The Weather Bureau's radar can spot a storm as far away as 100 miles, and warn planes to steer clear...