Word: bureau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Operating 24 hours a day, 20 for the Navy and four for the University, Mark I is currently grinding out tables for the Navy Bureau of Ordnance for which it will continue to work until June 1948. In the meantime, however, grass is not growing under the feet of the Laboratory's director and Mathematics professor, Howard H. Aiken. Already in its final stages of construction is Mark II, a tremendous new calculator which generally departs from the mechanical ratchet counters of Mark I and will consequently be much faster...
...Washington, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that 1946 walkouts had cost the nation 107,475,000 man-days of work-a record loss. Nevertheless, beamed the Department of Commerce, the great U.S. consumer had gone on a record spending spree. His 1946 bill: $127 billion-$900 per person...
...price of food, which had reached an alltime high in November, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, began slipping down. As yet, the drop was too small to bring many cheers from consumers. But it looked as if the peak in food was passed. The overall cost-of-living index had been still edging up in December. By last week, it looked as if it too might soon start down...
...onetime Huey Long henchman, agreed to write off a $3,000 loan to Bilbo in return for an assist on an $80,000 income-tax suit. In 1941, Terry recalled, Bilbo had accepted $1,500 to get an aged Natchez drug addict a special morphine prescription from the Federal Bureau of Narcotics...
Calling All Europeans. Serious, middle-aging (38) Editor Parsons, who "was thrown out of Harvard on his ear" (says Parsons Sr.) for failing to study, was the able wartime chief of the Tub's London Bureau. A Francophile like his father, he lives with his authoress wife (Drue Leyton Tartière, The House Near Paris) in an apartment whose windows look out on the Cathedral of Notre Dame...