Word: bureau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Right now we have enough correspondents there to challenge the A.E.F. to a football game. The eleven men from the TIME and LIFE News Bureau now on the Dark Continent moved in from Asia, from Britain and from across the Atlantic-to reinforce John Barkham, who covers the news for us down in South Africa-and Harry Zinder, just back in our Cairo office after jeeping along with the triumphant Eighth Army all the way from Alamein to Derna...
...very wrong when they thought that the machine age would simplify life for morons and imbeciles by making it easier to train them to make a living at routine machine jobs. A specialist in training subnormal youngsters, Director Emily T. Burr of New York City's Vocational Adjustment Bureau has concluded after long experience that machines are actually squeezing morons out of jobs...
...only group in the University which carries cooperation with the government to the point of being an actual Federal agency, the Harvard Group of the Bureau of Labor Statistics is now at work in Littauer Center coordinating the statistical information necessary for the settlement of post-war economic problems...
...division of the U. S. Bureau, the project is under the direction of Wassily W. Leontief, associate professor of Economics, and was established here at his request to avoid the confusion of a wartime Washington...
...bureau is also engaged in work with a more direct bearing on the war, with special emphasis on the manpower problem. According to Leontief, the variety of projects under way will keep the group active at least for the duration...