Word: bureau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Conservative Lord Beaver-brook's London Daily Express published the result of a straw vote conducted by its election bureau in 487 of Britain's 640 constituencies. The score, a more practical pointer than the Gallup Poll findings, gave the Conservative Party 53 seats more than all other parties combined...
June Havoc, pert musicomedienne who broke her kneecap last summer during a performance of Mexican Hayride, showed the injured member to interested doctors at New York State Workmen's Compensation Bureau, demanded more compensation for depletion of a capital asset. Paying customers, she explained, "expect to see my knees. I can't turn or kick and all I do is fake a few jitterbug steps...
...ablest pamphleteering on full employment has come from the National Planning Association. Hitherto the most publicized pamphlet emanated from N.P.A.'s Business Committee,* but this week its Labor Committee was heard from. Fiscal Policy for Full Employment, written by Dr. John H. G. Pierson of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, shows how in general the views of such laborites as Clinton S. Golden (United Steelworkers), Marion H. Hedges (Electrical Workers), James Carey (C.I.O.), David Kaplan (Teamsters), George Meany (A.F. of L.), Walter Reuther (Automobile Workers), et al., compare with those of such managers as Beardsley Ruml, H. Christian Sonhe...
Report from the Front. In 1943, Dr. John Lucian Savage, top U.S. Bureau of Reclamation civil engineer, who had gone to Chungking at Chinese invitation to study potential hydropower sites, asked to visit the Yangtze gorge. The bleak area was a fighting zone, but the Chinese Army guaranteed Savage safe conduct. In quiet broken by occasional rifle shots from the sleeping front, Savage charted possible dam sites except those above Ichang at the mouth of the gorge, which was in Jap hands...
...enthusiastic but necessarily incomplete report infected the Generalissimo, who instructed the Chinese National Resources Commission to continue the Savage investigation. To do this job, the Chinese asked the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation for technical help. They did not suggest a loan...