Word: bureau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...longer on a ship, he generally behaves as though he were, ordering changes in methods as though he were fully conversant with the running of an academic organization. In two years, he leaves to give place to another head. As for his staff of teachers, he gets what the Bureau of Personnel orders to service at the Academy. Such personnel is often very rusty on the subject to be taught, and keeps just a jump ahead of the midshipmen. It must be stressed that this "keeping a jump ahead" is common practice and is universally condoned and approved here...
...naval reservist and a bitter anti-regular; to exuberant Reserve Captain Luis de Florez, onetime consulting engineer to several oil companies, who is responsible for most of the Navy's special training devices; to younger officers like Vice Admiral Louis E. Denfeld, head of the Bureau of Personnel; to "Navy radicals" like Radford and Mitscher; to the best of the surface ship men, like Rear Admiral W. H. P. ("Spike") Blandy, onetime chief, Bureau of Ordnance; to Eugene Duffield, ex-Wall Street Journal writer, now his special assistant...
Rich Harvest. The Bureau of Agricultural Economics estimated that the farmer's cash income from marketings for 1945 will reach a dazzling $20.4 billion v. 1939's $8 billion. But nobody expected the Farm Bloc to agree that food subsidies ($437 million the first half of this year) should...
Arctops may do more than merely keep the Weather Bureau supplied with data. Half a dozen sciences, from botany to terrestrial magnetism, hope to benefit. Scientifically, the American arctic is still untouched...
Last week a bill was creeping through Congress which would authorize the Weather Bureau to set up stations in the arctic. Eventually, the U.S. would have to ask Canada and Denmark to cooperate by lending or leasing sites...