Word: bureau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Buenos Aires, Harold Mickey, a bandleader from Winston-Salem, N.C., fathered twin sons. Next day he called at the local bureau of vital statistics to register the boys. He had named one Glen (for an old friend), the other Franklin (for Franklin Roosevelt...
Mickey insisted, finally took the case to court. The lower courts supported him, but the bureau of vital statistics demanded a higher verdict. Last week the case was being appealed to Argentina's Supreme Court. On its august decision depended Mickey's right to name his children what he pleased...
Canada, which thrives on foreign trade, was getting healthier & healthier. Exports and imports, said the Dominion Bureau of Statistics, totaled $409,218,000 in August, the best peacetime month in the country's history. (Best previous peacetime total: $383,669,000 for November 1945.) Most of the trade, some $200,000,000 worth, was with...
...Pierce of Harvard bounced radio waves off the meteor trails. His gadget gave a dramatic whistle, like the screech of an approaching shell, whenever a meteor hit the atmosphere. Other scientists took to radar, which can see through clouds as if they were Cellophane. At the Bureau of Standards' laboratory near Sterling, Va., they watched bright blobs of light on a radarscope. These were made, they said, by the radar beam reflected from hot, ionized gases-the remains of meteors as they disintegrated in the atmosphere 50 to 80 miles...
...Weather Bureau announced that the summer...