Word: bureau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wife of TIME'S Moscow Bureau Chief, Edith Thompson has been waiting for months to join her husband. It looked as if her sailing date would not come for many months more, for the few Russian ships on the U.S.Russia run do not carry ordinary U.S. passengers, while the American ships are mostly freighters with no accommodations for women and children...
...Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co., be permitted a $196,000 income-tax deduction for his loss on the loan? By a strict Democratic majority, the committee voted not to challenge the deduction. Minority Republicans dissented. They also carefully noted the history of the loan, as described in testimony before the Bureau of Internal Revenue, and thereby recorded one of the most unusual chapters in the history of the 31st President...
Feather Weather. In Schenectady, N.Y., Weatherman Morris H. Cohn finally discovered why the city's official temperature was always higher than the U.S. weather bureau - a nestful of sparrows was keeping the recording tube warmed...
...most new churches will look just like the old ones. Says Walter A. Taylor, consultant to the Interdenominational Bureau of Architecture: "History and logic to the contrary, the now familiar forms of the Victorian and neo-Gothic have become a tradition-the phrases of architectural language which say 'church...
...mystery was cleared up. Available for the fall opening of schools was the first comprehensive text on the "applied science" of guidance (Techniques of Guidance; Harper, $3.50). Its author, Arthur E. Traxler, is a conscientious Ph.D. who for the past nine years has been associated with the Educational Records Bureau, academic efficiency experts who think every school should get itself a Guidance Officer. His book was brimful of Guidance. By internal evidence, the Guidance Officer seemed to be a half-robot, half-notetaking middleman on the faculty. His impressive task: to make "each individual understand his abilities and interests . . . relate...