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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Every Wednesday night-some 48 hours after TIME has gone to press-two documents of considerable importance to our next week's issue arrive at the TIME & LIFE building in Manhattan via teletype from our Washington bureau. They are the Washington Story Suggestions and the Washington Memorandum...
These documents are, in effect, an updating of the national scene for the benefit of TIME'S editors, whose work week begins on Thursday. The Story List, which reaches their desks along with the story suggestions from our other 27 bureaus at home & abroad, is the Washington bureau's idea of what stories from the nation's capital TIME'S forthcoming issue should carry and what background and information the bureau's 17 correspondents can supply for them. The Memorandum is an attempt to fill in our editors on what has been going on behind...
...each correspondent spends most of his week going his separate way, interviewing sources, etc.-which may include, as it did recently, an assignment to Bikini or a political depth-sounding junket into Pennsylvania. The one time during the week when the whole staff gets together is at the bureau chief's story conference on Wednesday morning...
...staff is fitted together to get an intimate picture of what is going on in Washington that week. Ed Lockett, TIME'S White House man, usually leads off with his outline of what the President is doing and will do, his mood, what the men around him say. Bureau Chief Robert Elson may take over from there, filling in the outline with information he picked up at a background conference in the State Department. Each reporter "sings" in turn: Frank McNaughton, who watches Congress like a hawk, to predict the fate of an important bill; Anatole Visson to relate...
...their own in free markets. They expected a period of higher prices-as had happened when meat and other foods went off control. But they also expected that after the first upward surge, prices generally would come back to reasonable levels-as they had on most foods (the Bureau of Labor Statistics wholesale food index showed a 5.5% drop in the last two weeks...