Word: bureau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year Reconversion boss, appointed by the President, will have the last word on the termination of war contracts and the disposal of surplus property. He will also oversee a brand-new agency, the Retraining and Reemployment Administration. Though this sounds like something big, the job of the new bureau is actually vague, and RRA may turn out to be simply the old Veterans Bureau in a new suit...
Governor Leverett E. Saltonstall '14, president of the Board of Overseers, was present at the ceremonies, as was Vice-Admiral Ross T. McIntire, (MC) USN, Chief of the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery of the Navy, who addressed the gathering as the chief speaker of the occasion...
...their solid notes and all midshipmen are asked to really get behind the dance and push it to top success. All junior officers are cordially invited to be with us. Treasurer Sam Nikkel has announced that tickets are now on sale at two dollars a couple with a date bureau to be set up soon in connection with the various girl's schools...
...patents, whereby most cartels are forged, Berge is less precise. The antitrust division has no intention of a large-scale attack on the present patent laws. To help even up the tremendous advantage big business has over little business in research and invention, Berge has suggested a Government-financed bureau of invention whose discoveries would be available to all. But there is the bigger problem of the international exchange of patents-e.g., how can U.S. industry get the real benefits of foreign patents without trading their...
...Silo. Several months ago the National Better Business Bureau sent to a large number of suspected sharks the worst sample of lyric writing its staff could concoct...