Word: bureau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Valsa Matthai did not return. Last week her disappearance was still a mystery to the scientifically thorough (and 99.2% successful) Missing Persons Bureau of the New York police. It had stumped private investigators hired by the Manhattan office of Tata Iron & Steel Co., Ltd., branch of the rich House of Tata which controls much of India's heavy industry...
...lime green, fresco-ceilinged conference room of London's ancient Gwydyr House (where The Beaver keeps his office as Lord Privy Seal). On the fifth day, The Beaver issued a vague press statement. So plushily vague was the statement that the dignified New York Times' London Bureau Head Raymond Daniell let fly with a parody of the diplomatic double talk...
...special regional news not obtained from the press, a West Virginia radio chain had set up its own bureau in Washington, D.C. The chain is the four-station† enterprise of John A. Kennedy (now in the Navy) and Howard Leonard Chernoff, a pair of ex-Washington Hearst...
...will be chiefly responsible for the success or failure of these agenda is the new bureau's head, Raymond Zoller Henle, longtime Washington correspondent and a Blue Network commentator. His one assistant so far is Malvina Stephenson, Washington reporter for the Kansas City Star and Cincinnati Times-Star. Henle must make records and ship them to West Virginia for broadcasting until the network feels it can afford a direct wire. That luxury awaits the verdict of the state's 325,000 radio families...
Business began to boom for the Bureau when, in 1940,--students were banned from further use of commercial tutoring services. Within two years, many of the men who actually needed help and had been ensnared by the schools came over to the University facilities, giving the Bureau the high total of 538 men assisted...