Word: bureau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Colonel Edward M. Kirby, radio chief of the War Department's Public Relations Bureau, wants to use the Wire Recorder to bring the battlefronts nearer home. With this device the radioman makes his comments into a hand microphone, which would also pick up surrounding battle sounds. The microphone actuates an electromagnet which records the sounds on a thin wire moving through it (by magnetically rearranging the molecular structure of the wire). The spool of wire, loaded with its temporary magnetic record, can then be sent away and "played back'' for radio broadcasting or transcription disk recording...
...every week; in New Jersey a J.A. pool (which includes the Intricate Trinkets Co.) is making shipping blocks to protect aircraft pumps in transit. And in Pittsburgh the Sesame Specialty Co. (all girls) is looking for foreign business: they have an incendiary bomb blanket already approved by the U.S. Bureau of Mines...
Some of the messages were to Catholics, but far more to Protestants, Jews, or people of no faith at all, for the Vatican's War Prisoner Information Bureau operates regardless of creed. Its information sometimes precedes by several weeks official Army notification...
...after the war's outbreak, the bureau is located at the Vatican's Secretariat of State. There Russian-born Bishop Alexander Evreinoff supervises the staff which transmits messages for prisoners of war, civilian internees and residents of belligerent countries. To & from the U.S. alone have passed 80,000 messages in the past two months. To New Yorkers they come at the rate of 1,500 a month...
American Federation of Labor President William Green appeared on the platform (for the first time), along with Edward A. O'Neal, president of the American Farm Bureau Federation, and General Electric's Owen D. Young. Green declared that labor is ready to "work, serve and sacrifice with you" for free enterprise's "ultimate triumph." O'Neal: "An artificially inflated price structure will crash and threaten the survival of ... democracy...