Word: bureau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tell-Tale. In Tell City, Ind., Silver Raley advertised that he was "doing hauling of any kind with old, geed up, no good 1½ ton truck when it runs . . . charges are plenty high." Illusionists. The National Beauty and Barber Manufacturers' Association chided the U.S. Census Bureau for underestimating by some 33,000 the number of U.S. beauty shops...
This new TIME edition is really just another example of the way TIME has "gone West to grow up with the country." For TIME was the first U.S. magazine to open a news bureau on the Pacific Coast...
...reward was the top job in the Internal Revenue Bureau. There he made more reforms. A significant change: the Bureau's form letters are no longer addressed to "Dear Sir" or "Dear Madam"; they now use taxpayers' full names. Weekends Hannegan has spent traveling to his bureaus, preaching efficiency and courtesy, pepping up employes' morale. "I'm an old team man," he said...
...attitude of the Command must [also] be taken into consideration. The Army Air Forces is a highly publicity-minded outfit. . . . The musical play, Winged Victory, is proof. ... So is the efficient and outsized . . . A.A.F. publicity bureau. Result: a mort of publicity and medals. . . . One not-too-prominent Army pilot has 14 various medals. A comparable Marine pilot...
...Source. Newsmen should not have been too greatly surprised. The Army's Bureau of Public Relations has been getting a tighter and tighter hold on press copy. One recent measure: a rule that no officer might talk to a reporter without BPR permission...