Word: bureau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...northwest corner of the Yard, what was once the most inclusive of all undergraduate organizations. Phillips Brooks House had to adapt itself to the ways of wartime social service. The building itself was turned into a combination children's day nursery, chaplains' office, housing bureau, and teatime center for Navy wives; the War Service Committee promoted blood donations among the remaining undergraduate body and sold war bonds and stamps in the House dining halls at noontime. The traditional Freshman teas were a strong point in holdovers through the war. PBH is now gradually picking up its former peacetime function...
...hitched his wagon to the Generalissimo's star, won the rising leader's trust by tireless intelligence work for the Kuomintang Army. In 1934 he organized China's Bureau of Investigation & Statistics. In time it became one of the world's biggest undercover agencies. It planted operatives from Bali to Burma, from Singapore to Sinkiang. It specialized in espionage and counterespionage; it kept watch on Communists, foreigners. Behind the Japanese lines its eyes were flower girls, coolies and ricksha men. In the most lurid Fu Manchu tradition, it reported to Tai Li with invisible ink messages...
...came home from World War I found plenty of promises but a country unprepared either to reabsorb or support them. Veterans legislation was a hodgepodge and the Veterans Bureau was a scandal until President Harding made a halfhearted attempt to clean it up; then the bureau became more concerned with economy-those were the days of Coolidge and Hoover-than philanthropy. Veterans plunged into race riots. The jobless sold apples, and in 1932 marched on Washington. The Government drove them out with cavalry and tanks while the nation watched in shame...
...plunged into his new job with vigor. As his chief deputy in VA he moved in his old Twelfth Army Group deputy, Brigadier General Henry B. Lewis. With Hawley on the hospital end, they went to work, rebuilding the cumbersome, antiquated bureau, decentralizing the vast machinery...
...Louis N. Ridenour, radar expert, explains how even the most elaborate precautions cannot keep a good proportion of the bombs from hitting their targets. And just a few bombs, he feels, will be enough Before the start of World War III writes Physicist Edward U. Condon of the National Bureau of Standards, atomic saboteurs may sow the U.S. with hidden volcanoes waiting to erupt on a chosen Pearl Harbor day. "A target, to be safe must be surrounded by a sanitary area at least a mile in radius. Any house can be as dangerous to its surroundings as the greatest...