Word: bureau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Five hundred sixty-eight officers, have taken the four-month course since its inception on June 1, 1945, when it was set up under the direction of the Chief of the Navy Bureau of Supplies and Accounts and the Director of the Navy Material Redistribution and Disposal Administration...
...other extreme is TIME'S News Bureau in sultry Washington, air conditioned from the chief's office to the office boys' hideaway...
...this one with a balcony on the fourth floor of the rambling old Metropole Hotel (ten minutes from the Foreign Office, five minutes from the Kremlin). In New York, however, among TIME & LIFE'S 14 floors in the 33-story TIME & LIFE Building at Rockefeller Center, our News Bureau sprawls over seven offices 28 floors above the Hudson at the center of everything...
Furthest south TIME News Bureau is in Buenos Aires, where Bill Mooney works in 46.9 square meters of linoleum-covered space in Edificio Boston on Avenida Presidente Roque Saenz Pena, a bronze, marble-and-mahogany building so fancy even for Latin America that one dazzled United Stateser exclaimed, "Where's the organ...
...spite of such dry spots, the U.S. Weather Bureau called it the country's fifth wettest July since 1817. It blamed the East Coast's rain on a northward migration (to a point off New York) of the eastern high pressure area, known to weathermen as the "Bermuda high," that usually lies off the Carolinas. That brought southeast winds, dripping with moisture picked up from the hot Gulf Stream and the Caribbean. Annoyed with vagrant Bermuda highs, the New York Times decided that they are "an invention of the devil and should be abolished." But the devil...