Word: bureau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With the announcement that 226 Harvard civilians have registered for the A-12--V-12 examination this morning, Elliott Perkins '23, Director of the War Service Information Bureau, reiterated his warning that the government does not permit lateness and that the Army and Navy college program hopefuls should be in their seats at New Lecture Hall by the time the Memorial Hall bell booms out 9 o'clock...
...association secretary, has been urging it for years. But the cost was only one barrier. The tunnel would interlace through 600 miles of underground workings, involving 2,000 patented claims, with heirs spread from Atlanta to China. RFC took one look at the legal snares, refused funds. Then the Bureau of Mines, anxious to increase zinc production, took an interest. (Zinc is used in brass cartridges; every big bomber carries 500 pounds of it.) As a war measure, Congress last spring gave Ickes the $1,400,000 he needed for the tunneling. Owners gave consent for the tunnel...
According to information released yesterday by Elliott Perkins '23, Director of the War Service Bureau, the third qualifying examination for acceptance into the A-12 V-12 programs will be given Tuesday, November 9, at 9 o'clock A.M. in the New Lecture Hall...
...Originally built by a textile millionaire, Spiridonovka House was taken over during the 1917 Revolution, later housed a U.S. relief mission for a time. Moscow legend insists that after the incurious Americans moved out, a Soviet bureau moved in, searched the cellar, found $5,000,000 in hidden treasure, mostly diamonds...
Bombing Miracles. Pipe-smoking Arizona-born Dan De Luce, 32, worked a 48-hour week in A.P.'s Los Angeles bureau while attending University of California at Los Angeles. He graduated (Phi Beta Kappa) in 1934, soon set out on the kind of career newsmen dream about. He was in the Balkans with his handsome wife when Germany invaded Poland. From Lwow he sent one of the war's first air-raid eyewitness dispatches: "As I write . . . 21 German bombers are raining heavy bombs. . . . The table under my hand is shaking like something alive. If [the hotel] holds...