Word: bureau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...home, Don Nelson won the enthusiastic approval of his boss. Franklin Roosevelt announced that henceforth Donald Nelson would be his special representative, with Cabinet rank. He would have the right to sit in on Cabinet meetings, could demand any information from any Government bureau...
...take his bride on a pre-Hitler honeymoon that included almost every country in Europe, later worked as assistant city editor on the Seattle Times and as Army correspondent for Collier's in seven western states. . . . And still another new writer was head of our Detroit News Bureau, a job he prepared for by 12 years' work on the Milwaukee Sentinel, the Detroit Mirror, and the Detroit Times (in his spare time recently he turned out a mystery story that won cheers from the critics...
...sight's inventor, Java-born Carl L. Norden, was to be awarded the Holley Medal of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers for his invention. Meantime, the Navy announced that Inventor Norden had a collaborator, Captain Frederick I. Entwistle, assistant research chief of the Navy's Bureau of Ordnance. Captain Entwistle, who joined Norden in his experiments in 1928, shares the patents and the credit for the final model...
...writer, he has been a newsman since his college days as a reporter on the Harvard Crimson. Organizer and for nearly five years head of the Herald Tribune's Chicago office, he was sent abroad as London correspondent in 1941, two years later became chief of the London bureau. His able dispatches on French politics presumably earned him his editorship...
...arctic realism, the vital-statistics reports of the U.S. Bureau of Census have no rival. In a report made available last week, one lonely note of promise shivered among lowering facts: whereas in 1900 some 3,080,498 U.S. citizens lived to the age of 65, today the number is 9,019,314, and by 1980 it is estimated that double that number will reach 65, even make it past the classical three-score...