Word: bureau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...controversial colonial issue! On Nov. 23, an American in uniform was killed by rioting mobs in Calcutta. This tragedy is but a sample of the news that may be forthcoming from that unhappy country if we believe even a portion of the dire prediction of TIME'S London Bureau editors [TIME...
Twice the battleshipmen passed him over for promotion; a third time he probably would have been out. But President Roosevelt saved him by jumping him to Chief of the Bureau of Aeronautics...
...fate of the NROTC members themselves will remain in doubt until further announcements from the Navy, with the College authorities at present awaiting word from the Bureau of Naval Personnel as to details of the peacetime NROTC program. Men in the present program who are candidates for the degree in Harvard College and who are released by the Navy will be provided with rooms, Dean Hanford promised last night...
...Dominion Bureau of Statistics spread open a brand-new set of account books and disclosed that the national product* had jumped over 100% from $5,483,000,000 in 1939 to a thumping $11,727,000,000 in 1944. The U.S. national product rose from $88 billion to $199 billion, Britain's from $24 billion to $40 billion...
...program here will achieve civilian status by February, even if the Bureau of Naval Personnel follows its current signals. The 33 men in the most advanced class, 1a, will definitely receive their commissions around February 1, and will probably be assigned to active duty with the fleet...