Word: bureau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Second is an attack on New Deal farm agencies, particularly Farm Security Administration, which by loans and counsel has been helping hundreds of thousands of small (i.e., non-Farm Bureau) farmers to double their war-needed food production. These agencies the lobbyists hold to be social experiments and luxuries in wartime...
...blood-soaked, handkerchiefs, stains on sofa and floor. After that, nerves were nearly as raw as Nelson's tortured head and face. The gang split up, took two new apartments. They never saw Stewart again. Somehow Nelson got away, too, and fled to Minneapolis. And somehow the Federal Bureau of Investigation got the clue it needed...
...Bureau of Ships men were "amazed at the Institute," snorted: "Impossible!" and "Where would he put all the ammunition...
Spreading Thin. The American Bureau for Medical Aid to China (now part of United China Relief) is represented in China by Dr. George W. Bachman. Though 52-year-old Dr. Bachman speaks in platitudes ("I am looking out for a way to help the war effort"), he is a topnotch scientist with a talent for organization. From 1918 to 1922 he lived in China, teaching biology at Huping College. When the Bureau sent him to Chungking last April he had for eleven years been director of Columbia University's famed School of Tropical Medicine in Puerto Rico...
...China's whole medical problem. Dr. Bachman's other job is "not to create new projects but to maintain existing ones which are dying from stress, shortages, inflation and war." Since Lend-Lease and the American Red Cross have taken over sending medical supplies to China the Bureau's efforts have been concentrated on three projects: > An Emergency Medical Service Training School at Tuyunkuan, Kweiyang plans to have a branch for each of the nine war areas, has five so far. To the schools the Bureau has contributed teachers, supplies (such as trucks, instruments), money. In courses...