Word: bureau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...supporter and confidante to whom Ubico undoubtedly looked for comfort was a remarkable woman named Julita Quiñones. Officially, she is at the head of a Government bureau in charge of meals and supplies for public schools. Actually, she wields power in scale with her bulk (Guatemalans swear that she is 6 ft. 7 in. tall...
...Moonlight and Warmer " The official weather report said : "Moonlight and warmer." Was the U.S. Weather Bureau - after 75 years of cautious clichés - suffering a sudden May-madness? Dispatched to find out, Washington reporters met slight, affable Donald C. Cameron, 39, new chief forecaster for the Southeastern U.S. No whimsical amateur, but a Bureau veteran of 22 years, Weatherman Cameron knew exactly what he was about. He explained:"My idea is to humanize the forecasts. . . . People don't give a damn what degree of temperature is expected. The average person doesn't know what humidity is. They...
...enlisted men by more than 2-to-1; in two departments by 3-to-1. Male officers, who outnumbered WAVE officers 7-to-1 a year ago, now maintain their numerical superiority at the Navy Department by only 3-to-1. The Navy admitted without comment that in one bureau 158 eager WAVES had taken over the jobs...
Under the stress of pre-induction anguish, the protagonist, a former employe of the Inter-American Travel Bureau, b haves very badly. He quarrels with his well-meaning relatives, insults his friends, lives off his wife because he sees no point in getting a job that can only be tem porary. He also plays around with a trol lop, and whenever he grows too utterly unhappy, goes out walking in the rain, getting his feet wet to spite everybody...
Miss Alpenfels has spent much of 1944 barnstorming the Midwest, chiefly for Dr. Stewart Grant Cole's Bureau for Intercultural Education, which provides source material and teaching ideas to school systems anxious to teach something about U.S. cultural diversities, minimize bias, increase mutual tolerance...