Word: bureau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Recently, the following colloquy took place between the secretary in our San Antonio, Texas bureau and an anonymous telephoner. Said our girl, answering the phone : Garfield ni-yon, three-seven...
This is the TIME Magazine office. You want the telephone company's Time Service Bureau...
...part of the Council of the Republic, which replaces the old Senate. The machinery for creating this body is among the most formidably complex ever devised, even by the French, whose vaunted clarté is not at its best in election laws. The concierge in TIME's Paris Bureau said: "I am not voting tomorrow because I wouldn't understand what I was doing...
...know the Chinese could run China." He has had to grapple with such problems as the disposal of 97,000 bodies which accumulated in Shanghai funeral parlors during the war, when relatives lacked a means of sending them to ancestral burial grounds. His health bureau is limiting current corpses to 30 days above ground...
Culminating a long debate among its members, the University Chapter of the American Veterans Committee last night resolved to back the national organization's policy of gearing veterans' subsistence allowances to the increased cost of living according to the change in price levels determined by the Bureau of Labor Statistics...