Word: bureau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This sketchy weather plotting has been tough on U.S. weathermen, for the chief cause of northern-hemisphere weather is the "heat balance" between the cold arctic air mass and the warm air near the equator. Lacking exact information about the extreme north, the Weather Bureau could only make shrewd guesses...
...assigned its Washington Bureau Chief Paul Miller, who played the story solemnly: "The Globester took off for Tripoli at 12:30 a.m." Funnyman Fred Othman was only slightly funny for the U.P.: "Hand me down my white burnoose, light the incense and call the dancing girls." I.N.S. sent Inez Robb, Hearst's glib, grey go-girl, who had to admit there wasn't much to write about: "We are well on the way to establishing the alltime record of circumnavigating the globe without seeing anything...
...them have spiritually never left the reservation. Of 18,000 who have graduated since the Academy's founding, 15,000 are still alive (only some 2,400 had graduated by 1900). Among them are the commander in chief, U.S. Fleet, the chief of the Navy's Bureau of Personnel, who are directly responsible for Academy policies. (Jake Fitch only administers.) Academy alumni are admirals and captains-the holders of almost all the worthwhile jobs in the Navy-who have learned new doctrines fighting World War II, whose ideas directly and indirectly influence U.S. naval policy. They are also...
...which he fondly regards with all the hero worship of a small boy-he plunked his idea right on Director Hoover's desk. For their story, De Rochemont and Writer John Monks Jr. pored over scores of FBI case histories and pieced together a selection of the Bureau's better experiences...
Actors, technicians and equipment were toted hither & yon to get such actual backgrounds as the California Institute of Technology and the radio shack used by the Bureau to relay bogus information abroad. By shooting only 35 feet of film (less than half a minute) in the studio, able Director Henry Hathaway set some sort of record...