Word: bureau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week U.S. scientists were busy at the long-neglected job. Using one of the most elaborate collections of paraphernalia ever assembled-planes, radar, cameras, raindrop measurers, recording devices in great variety-the Army Air Forces, Navy and U.S. Weather Bureau had launched a project to find out all that man can know about a storm, from its fleecy birth to crescendo climax. Because thunderstorms are flying's greatest hazard, the investigators hope their study will develop reliable methods of recognizing and avoiding dangerous types of cloud...
...Rejected the President's proposal for consolidating all federal housing agencies into one bureau; approved two other Government reorganization plans...
Meanwhile-the Interior Department Reclamation Bureau's engineer, W. G. Sloan, laid out a plan. While Big Muddy rampaged, Pick and Sloan proponents argued...
...Truth" & Co. Redin's trial and acquittal, like all Tass news from the U.S., was relayed through its bureau in Manhattan's Rockefeller Center. Except for four Washington correspondents, headed by earnest, well-liked Larry Todd, its U.S. staff of 18 reporters is based in New York. (The Russians limit each U.S. news organization in Moscow to one or two correspondents.) Only five of Tass's 18 U.S. men are Russians...
...merchant angrily said his say against the flood of rising food prices in the U.S. While Congress still wrangled over OPA (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), most manufacturers held the line on prices, worried lest a sudden boost bring back OPA with a rush. But food was something else again. The Bureau of Labor Statistics gravely reported that its food index had jumped 16.1 points last week alone. And with commodity prices rising all along the line, chances were that food would continue to rise...