Word: bureau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...schoolteacher, Guy Mollet, and a phalanx of 60-odd associates, the left wing of the French Socialist Party rebelled against Léon Blum's moderate, anti-Communist leadership. By a vote of 2,964-to-1,363 (with 145 abstentions), the annual Party Congress rejected the Executive Bureau's activities report. General Secretary Daniel Mayer (a moderate) promptly resigned. Léon Blum pleaded with the rebels ("Participation of Communists in a government without any doubt serves the interests of Russia. It is not for us to enter into a government so that we could plant there...
From then on business boomed. Kahn set up his own shop (Weatherman Co.), took on 80 employes. The U.S. Weather Bureau attested to the gadget's accuracy. Ships Service at the Great Lakes Naval Training Station ordered five gross. Other orders flocked in from as far afield as South Africa, South America, the Far East. At $1.69 apiece, the weather houses grossed $70,000 in 1942, $350,000 the next year, $800,000 last year. Production has reached a rate of 6,500 units...
From his "foreign" bureau in Manhattan, he published an exhaustive four column takeout on the New York press. The Trib headlined...
Under the first chief, Physicist Joseph Henry, the Smithsonian's scientists, trying to do "pure research" amid the clutter, kept fairly close to the main stream of scientific progress. They set up an effective weather reporting system before the Weather Bureau, did important work in other fields. Later chiefs also had their triumphs; Samuel Pierpont Langley, the most famous, worked out the principles of the airplane before the Wright brothers made one that would...
...backward look by the Bureau of Labor Statistics etched the meaning of a trend of little boosts. The pre-wholesale prices of 28 basic commodities had risen a thumping 22.4% since the beginning of July. One big boost still stuck. From June 15 to July 15 retail food prices had soared 13.8%, the largest monthly jump in the 43 years since the Bureau had been keeping tab on them. (Actually, the real price to the consumer did not go up quite as much because of the abolition of subsidies on decontrolled products, which he must no longer pay via taxes...