Word: bureau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...A.W.V.S.). You give a lot of your time and $84,000,000 a year in cash to charity. Almost surely you belong to a women's club (quite probably one of the thousands which make up their current affairs programs with the help of the TIME Club Bureau). And when you go out of an evening you do your husband proud-for you own about three evening gowns (your husband thinks you should have even more...
...number of civilians, some of them concerned only indirectly with the war. In went three Girl Scouts for the President's thanks for the 15,340,000 hours of service the Scouts had given since Pearl Harbor (see cut); in went Katharine Lenroot of the Children's Bureau and twelve 'teenagers to watch the President sign a Child Health Day Proclamation (May 1); in went Governor Charles Harwood of the Virgin Islands; Postmaster General Frank Walker; and New York Attorney Louis B. Wehle, longtime friend of the President...
...cowman's contemptuous word for oleomargarine is bull butter. Last fall the Iowa Farm Bureau, to whom the cow is sacred, got Iowa State College to suppress a scientific pamphlet praising bull butter as a wartime labor saver (TIME, Oct. 11). Whereupon Professor Theodore Schultz, head of the college's famed, farm-focused Department of Economics and Sociology, declared that faculty morale was jeopardized and switched to the University of Chicago. By last week 19 other teachers had quit the college on leave or permanently. Twelve were from Professor Schultz's department, whose remnant inevitably seems cowed...
...blunt, Red-minded Joe Curran stepped out of character as a longtime hard-slugging critic of U.S. ships and shippers. He praised the Liberty as an excellent ship- for its wartime purpose. He saw nothing extraordinary in the small percentage of Liberty ship failures (3.23 reported by the American Bureau of Shipping), declared that ships built by master craftsmen in peacetime have suffered the same casualties. To keep their positions in convoys, the slow (10½ knots) Liberties often must buck mountainous seas while running at full speed instead of slowing down as they would normally do. Overloading with solid...
...confident that he had a workable system, Dr. Abbot told the Weather BuReau last March that on 175 specified days during 1943 it was likely to rain in Washington, and that rainfall on those days would be 166% of normal. Actual figure at year's end: 158%. He also correctly predicted the three days of heaviest Washington rainfall in January and February this year. Once, consulted by an Army engineer, he predicted that during a three-month period rainfall in the Tennessee Valley would be 84 to 87% of normal...