Word: bureau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...people as possible to try to hear all sides of the West Coast viewpoint. In the process we also had a chance to talk with Time Inc.'s newsmen who, as I told you sometime ago, have been multiplying out there since we established our first Pacific Coast bureau in San Francisco 11 years ago. There are more of them there today than ever before because the Coast is making more national news than ever before...
Last week TIME'S London Bureau cabled: "Britons are asking about and talking about war in a dreadfully matter-of-fact way-two years, five years, what will you bet?" On the Continent the schism between Russia and the West was forcing the great mass of moderate men into two opposing camps, with the extremists in both getting ready for "when war comes." As Jimmy Byrnes and Arthur Vandenberg spoke of a stronger U.S. foreign policy (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), war talk was also heard...
...also with Geiger counters, will approach the dread lagoon, sampling the water and reporting by radio. Next, a swarm of 20 launches, manned by raincoated scientists, will scoot like water bugs among the stricken ships. Finally, if all pioneers report that the coast is clear, the Navy's Bureau of Ships, its medical units, and its associated scientists will enter Bikini Lagoon to see what the Model-T bomb has done to the U.S. Navy...
Astromental historians updated F. W. Though the last Englishman had long been dead, the British Empire continued to exist. The Germans had been the first people to ask to have their chauvinisms removed by the Central Psycho-Surgical Bureau. Russian Communism ("hoary with age") had clothed itself in such "intoxicating religious pomp" that the young Marxist clergy swung censers (full of disinfectant), chanted rhymed statistics and wore miters inscribed with the sacred text: "The Welfare of the Greatest Number of Microorganisms is the Purpose of the Cosmos." The U.S. had passed a Constitutional amendment "by virtue of which the economic...
...Dominion Bureau of Statistics, usually devoted to facts, took a flyer in prophecy. It examined the Canadian birth and death rates, last week guessed that, barring war and relaxation of present immigration rules, by 1990 Canada would have a population of 15,000,000 (present population: about...