Word: bureau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Severest Critics. In The Bronx, Acting Captain John Cronin, head of the Missing Persons Bureau, hunted for his two children, found them hiding in Woodlawn Cemetery. Explained eleven-year-old Alice: "We wanted to see how good you were...
Senator Pepper is one Congressman not afraid to be wired for sound. He also advocates television (perhaps envisioning the toe-&-fan dance which Representative Dewey Short of Missouri performed on the House floor in the process of defeating a bill to establish a Bureau of Fine Arts). Says Senator Pepper in support of his bill...
Rosie the riveter is buying more insurance. The Life Insurance Sales Research Bureau, an insurance fact-finding agency, last week found that women will buy 35% of all life-insurance policies this year, v. 25% in 1942. The average policy bought by a woman, they found, is $1,544, v. $3,894 for the average male policy. So, women will buy only 18% of 1944's total output, in dollar volume. But housewives, who bought 31% of feminine insurance in 1942, bought only 21% of the feminine market...
Junior officers are cordially invited. Preliminary plans included a date bureau with the various girls schools. Wags commenting on the dance in the Lucky Bag say that "a portable bar with bar-keepers to match has been secured to meet all demands in any quantity this time...
...Grisham, head of the O.D.P. (office of date procurement) has been wondering at the lack of response for a date bureau but is going ahead with arrangements. So the service is available--just contact...