Word: bureau
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...nation's high schools have lost 1,000,000 pupils to wartime jobs. Of the 5,000,000 youngsters taking summer jobs, each fall between 300,000 and 400,000 have failed to answer school-opening bells. The campaign was the idea of the U.S. Children's Bureau, which had become disturbed at increasing violations of child-labor laws (New York alone had an estimated 125,000 illegal workers), industrial accidents to children, job-hunting young wanderers...
...more & more demands that the Little Steel formula be junked. The unions contended that even now the formula's pegging of wages on the basis of a 15% rise in the cost of living was ridiculous; that the "actual" living cost had rocketed 45% since January 1941. (The Bureau of Labor Statistics insists that living costs have gone up only 24%.) After the war, the unions fear they will lose the special wartime conditions that fattened pay envelopes : overtime, upgrading and night-shift premiums...
...Frank, Des Moines Register and Tribune's Gordon Gammack) and an artist, Parade's John Groth, attached to the Ninth Air Force had been ordered out of France. Their explanation: they had displeased the Ninth's public-relations chief, Colonel Robert Parham, a prewar United Press bureau manager, by reporting other news of the war, failing to devote themselves to producing publicity for the Ninth Air Force...
...Netherlands Information Bureau New York City...
Considerable Cloudiness with showers and occasional thundershowers today. Much cooler this afternoon and night. --United States Weather Bureau Forecast...