Word: bureau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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News of the party was released yesterday and spread quickly around the Square, a number of wolves having howled already at the doors of 14 Plympton Street. One signer wanted to know of the CRIMSON weather bureau predicted a cold night for next Saturday...
Myths and legends have been written about fat wartime wages and savings. These are being disproven by the reports, from the Federal Reserve Board and Bureau of Agricultural Economics showing that the rich got richer and the poor remained poor. One of every five families in 1945 had less than $1000 income; another group of more than one-fifth had less than $2000 income. Wartime savings are concentrated almost exclusively in families well above these income levels...
...various times, his ad campaigns had the Federal Trade Commission, Better Business Bureau, American Medical Association and the New York Times on his neck. Hill squelched lesser critics handily: "Why should I justify [my copy]? It has paid...
...said the U.S. Weather Bureau, glancing up from its charts and instruments. A psychological illusion. In the eastern U.S., July and August had aver aged only about two degrees cooler than normal. West of the Mississippi, the sum mer was slightly warmer than usual...
...Sindhis" are among the best milch cattle in India, although their production, averaging 2,000 Ibs. a year, is poor by U.S. standards (5,800 Ibs. average). But the Bureau of Animal Industry hopes to develop eventually a Sindhi-Jersey cross which will combine good milking qualities with ability to thrive and flourish in hot climates...