Word: bureau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Immediate and most important" is the task of carrying out "negotiations relative to the execution of the provisions of the Potsdam declaration." (Kusuo Oya, chief of Japan Broadcasting Corp.'s overseas bureau, announced: "We have lost, but this is temporary...
Nerve News. In Chicago, burglars got into police headquarters, leisurely cleaned the detective bureau of $10,000 in cash and jewelry, left a litter of 70-odd cigaret butts and burnt matches. Few days later gunmen pinched one of Mayor Kelly's brand-new police-escort cars, used it in four holdups, finally abandoned it and vanished without trace...
...signing soloists; her springs, tapping people for money; her summers, worrying about the weather. During the concert weeks she studies the skies as closely as a New England fishing captain, and keeps a wary eye on an office barometer. Every few minutes on cloudy days, she telephones the Weather Bureau...
...years old all of National Affairs was written by one man (who also turned out Science and Books). In the entire U.S. we had not one correspondent to send us the news firsthand-and it wasn't until eleven years later that we had our own Washington News Bureau...
...Navy, suddenly discovering that this feeling was typical, began a campaign to make amends for its bungled selling job. All Hands, official Bureau of Naval Personnel magazine, last week published a letter to all Reservists from square-shooting, popular Navy Secretary James V. Forrestal. The gist: the Navy would need perhaps 30,000 more Regular officers than it has now; it hopes to get them from the Reserves...