Word: bureau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...veterans' placement bureau in finding a job, unemployment insurance of $20 a week for a maximum of one year...
...newspaper supply ran even shorter of demand than usual. Clubs and study groups swamped the Moscow Lecture Bureau with requests for Second Front speakers. More than one comrade puzzled over the map of France in the British Embassy's publication, Britanski Soyusnik (British Ally). On it the English Channel appeared as "Angliski Canal." Russians, accustomed to the French "La Manche,"asked: "When did the English build the canal between themselves and France...
Beneath St. Peter's dome stood Monsignor Enrico Pucci, head of the Vatican's semi-official news bureau. He looked out across the jeep-filled streets of the Eternal City and murmured: "Oh, it's just another changing of the guard...
...Bureau of Reclamation men and their boss, Interior Secretary Harold L. Ickes, that coming to life of the huge electric generator was the climax of the six-year job of building Shasta. But to strapping (205 lb., 6 ft. 3 in.), profane Francis Trenholm Crowe, general superintendent of construction for Pacific Constructors, Inc., the big moment had come four months before, when the Sacramento River began a regulated flow through outlet valves on the dam's broad, sloping downstream face. "That meant we had the river licked," said Crowe. "Pinned down, shoulders right on the mat. Hell, that...
...Geddes used to say, is that man is "always attempting the impossible and achieving it." Intellectual Cement Tester. Young Mumford decided to be a Renaissance man, too. So he got a job as an investigator in the dress and waist industry, became an assistant cement tester in the U.S. Bureau of Standards, a U.S. Navy radio operator in World War I. He was also an unsuccessful playwright, a student of philosophy, education, socialism, editor of two highbrow magazines (Dial, The Sociological Review) and the American Caravan, an anthology of promising U.S. writers. In 1931, aged 36, Mumford sat down...