Word: bureau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...will be the OPA rate. While that government agency was gasping its dying breath this summer, the shop contained a huge sign proclaiming: "OPA Regulations are still observed in this store--Cahaly." Now, even as Paul porter cleans out his Washington desk and prepares to transfer the bureau to the textbooks, the sign still remains amid the crepe-paper decor of a dusty window display...
Those Long Stripes. At week's end things were gradually getting back to normal. U.S. Weather Bureau forecasters, who had refused to share the nation's astonishment, wearily explained the phenomenon in terms of isobars and occluded fronts and went back to peering at their charts and thermometers. Eastern beaches were deserted again. But thousands of amateur weather prophets, who accepted the whole business as a call to arms, were busily trying to discover what it portended...
Time for Decision. This week TIME'S Nanking bureau cabled: "One fact is clear: a new and decisive phase of the civil war has opened. The greatest need for China is peace . . . but now it is possible and indeed likely that if China is to have peace, it can only be assured through a civil war fought to some kind of a decision. Without communications, China cannot survive, and today the plain fact is that until one side or the other clears those railroads, there can be no effective communications. . . . With Nationalist forces in control of the main lines...
...tiny vault lay undisturbed through nine stormy years. Last week, learned representatives of 18 countries came to the Pavilion de Breteuil outside Paris, solemnly squeezed into the little vault. There, reposing in a glass case, were the objects these delegates to the first postwar convention of the International Bureau of Weights and Measures had come to see: The Kilogram and The Meter, in person-the official standards of weight and measure for the world's metric system...
Middleton has plenty to forget. At 25, in the spring of 1939, he joined the London Bureau of the A.P. That fall he was one of the twelve U.S. correspondents assigned to the British Expeditionary Force. From then on, in England, Africa and Europe-ending with Dunkirk; and later, after the Blitz, returning to the Continent for the New York Times, he saw more of the war than most of his colleagues, rapidly built a reputation for courageous and able reporting. He is now the Times's correspondent in Moscow, but Our Share of Night covers only...