Word: bureau
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United State Weather Bureau forecasters at Logan Airport were not interested in Tom Collinses or $20 fines. Coldly statistical, the Bureau said that its thermometer hit 85 degree yesterday at 3:30 p.m. and humidity was up to a moist 61 percent. Record temperature for the same day was 100 degrees...
Temperatures should drop about 15 degrees today, the Bureau forecast last night, but weather will continue fair...
Washington correspondents know smart, stocky James Arthur Wechsler as one of the ablest reporters in the capital. But his name was well down on the totem pole of the New York Post Home News (circ. 380,000); he was one of two "associates" to Washington Bureau Chief Charles Van Devander. Last week, at 33, Jimmy Wechsler slid all the way up the pole to the editorship...
...once sent a dead mouse through one of the pneumatic tubes connecting Chicago's four daily newspapers with the City News Bureau. Two minutes later, "City Press," which prides itself on its speedy service, shot back a box of rat poison. For live news, it moves even faster; on big stories it sometimes pops 2,000' words a minute through the 40-m.p.h. tubes...
...other hand, if the informant was connected with the FBI, he was acting in direct violation of the bureau's policy. A New Haven FBI spokesman has said, "We are not allowed to open our records either to private individuals or to civilian institutions...