Word: bureau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...following men were selected to occupy billets during the Semester leave: Michael J. Kingsley--New York Navy Purchasing Office; Lambert Kaspers--Thompsonville, Staton Island, New York; John A. O'Hara and Arthur A. Aschauer--Navy Aviation Supply Office and Depot, Philadelphia; Ben B. Graves--Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, Washington; Mortimer J. Roth--Commander, Air Force, Atlantic Fleet; and John E. Keery--Boston Navy -Yard...
...Sergei Iliushin, head of a state airplane-design bureau, revels in the reputation of a Man-Who-Gets-Things-Done. Stalin often visits Iliushin's offices, gives unexcited pep talks to the staff. When Hitler went on his rampage, Iliushin began to toy with the idea of a flying tank-buster. The seed of the idea was the memory of a frying pan with which many a Russian flyer armor-plated his plane seat in World War I. Out of the frying pan came the fiery Stormovik, which has destroyed so many Nazi tanks that the Germans renamed...
After a tough struggle with its mountain of statistics, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics formally brought forth the minutest statistic of the week: from mid-June to mid-July, the cost of living for city workers went down 0.8%. Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins emerged from the Cabinet morgue to find this droplet impressive...
Once planned, the Anglo-American money was made by the U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing. To guard the secret, the bills (issued in eight denominations from 1 to 1,000) were printed only with the legend "Allied Military Currency" on one side and the Four Freedoms (in English) on the reverse. Not till the invasion of Sicily began were the words "Lira" and "Series 1943," "Issued in Italy" printed on the bills. Seven tons (about 30,000,000 lira to the ton) were then loaded in two transport planes and flown abroad...
Business began to boom for the Bureau when, in 1940, students were banned from further use of commercial tutoring services. Within two years, many of the men who actually needed help and had been ensnared by the schools came over to the University facilities, giving the Bureau a high total of number assisted...