Word: bureau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Loving Arms. In Cleveland, Jessie Crump, arrested for packing a loaded pistol to the marriage-license bureau, admitted that she "was taking no chances...
...Reorganization bill, which six months ago asked for powers to streamline the overlapping, bureau-ridden executive branches of the war government, finally inched past the Senate. But its final form was still uncertain. Both the Senate and the House had made changes that galled the President (e.g., the Senate wanted to exempt the Maritime Commission from reorganization; the House wanted to exempt the Veterans Administration). Now the bill would have to go back to a joint conference for further chewing...
...shakedown, Captain Joseph F. Bolger* had warned that she might be unable to leave port unless qualified replacements were supplied at once, to take the place of engine-room officers and men going ashore for discharge. Scraping holes in the bottom of its manpower barrel, the Bureau of Naval Personnel had found enough hands to keep the Midway's twelve boilers and four engines running...
...members of TIME'S London Bureau joined last week in sending their editors the following prediction...
...advertising campaign last week rose to full cry. Its purpose was to sell the average U.S. male something he had always skittered away from buying-a line of for-men-only cosmetics, ranging from perfumes to bubble baths. In the nation's stores, bashful men fingered flashy bureau and bath sets, shaped like whiskey bottles, perfume bottles sporting horsehead corks, pictures of big game. One Midwest manufacturer crowed over a solid gold shaving bowl worth $1,875, without the soap. ("Boy, that's luxury...