Word: bureau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Barnacles are a serious hindrance to a ship, slowing it down and making it clumsy to handle. Normally a ship must have her hull scraped every six to 18 months. But the new paint, developed by the Navy's Bureau of Ships, keeps a ship's bottom whistle-clean for two to five years. A brown, syrupy compound of cuprous oxide and synthetic resins, it is sprayed on hot (300°F.), forms a coat ten times as thick as ordinary paint...
...Bureau of Internal Revenue had its own grim little joke: it statistically proved that there really should be no shortage. In January of 1944, when there was none, 20,115,137,677 cigarets went on the domestic market. In January of this year, there was only .185% less, even though no one seemed to have got a full supply. These figures, civilian smokers complained acridly, blithely ignored the fact that the strain of war on the home front had turned them all into chain smokers...
Smith hired the area's best horticulturists and floral designers right & left (despite protests of other growers, who claimed that he was underselling the market and charging off floral losses against newspaper profits), soon had a crack staff of 65. Among many Smith service features: a "memory service bureau," employing a pert blonde to call up husbands two days before wedding anniversaries...
Earl Conrad is free, white and 36, a Hearstwhile reporter who became a Negro expert for Manhattan's race-conscious PM. Last week he quit PM to head the New York bureau and write a column for the New Dealing Negro Chicago Defender ("World's Greatest Weekly"), which already has a Japanese-American on its staff. Said Conrad: "No white paper is prepared to speak out on the Negro question. . . . There has been a conspiracy of silence. This is changing rapidly now, but I am apparently ahead of the trend...
...future for us now holds nothing more than ten days of bliss--at home for those who live in the region served by the Boston Weather Bureau, on the trains for those who live in "sunny" by distant California. Of course, now is the time when Professor Hanson's prediction of a dire fate for 60 percent of us will be put to the acid test. Those far away lights in the eyes of B. A. Johnson and "Dreamer" Dye, Ensigns, SC, portend something to those who know. We've also noticed a few wistful glances on Archie Aiken...