Word: bureau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When General Chennault's flyers swept down on Formosa on the most dangerous raid ever attempted by our flyers in China, they took only one newsman along to witness the devastation of the great Shinchiku airdrome. That newsman was Teddy White of TIME'S Chungking Bureau...
Only among the 36 rear admirals in the staff corps are there other non-Annapolis men. Outstanding among these is Ben Moreell, Chief of the Bureau of Yards and Docks, who came to the Navy from a municipal job during the last war and jumped the grade of captain when he was made Bureau Chief. To Ben Moreell belongs much credit for the gigantic job of building the Navy's worldwide bases. Other typical non-Annapolis staff corps admirals: Ross T. Mclntire, Chief of the Bu reau of Medicine and Surgery; William...
Young, Chief of the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts...
...lunged for the shore as nervous as bulls entering the bullring," he later cabled the Chief of our News Bureau. "It was still an unhealthy area, and intermittently all day we were scurrying for cover as grenades burst a jew paces away or a stream of bullets parted the leaves overhead. About noon word was passed to prepare for a bombing attack. We dived for cover and I found myself waist-deep in water in a swampy pit. Whenever we took cover Jap snipers popped out and bullets would whine through our entire area. About three o'clock there...
...Essex, where he entertains friends by cooking a saucy chafing-dish concoction he calls "Steak Diane." Few besides himself can really stand it. He has a wife and four children, including twins. His oldest boy, Michael, only 16, recently became head of the London Daily Mail's Liverpool bureau. Say British newsmen: an inkling of the same type...