Word: bureau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Four agencies have quibbled on the why and wherefores of still production. The WPB, the Bureau of Industrial Conservation, the OPA, and since August, War Materials, Inc., a division of the RFC, have all dabbled, with resulting confusion. Established to collect steel scrap--regardless of cost--the most recent agency, War Materials, Inc., a division of the RFC, have all dabbled, with resulting confusion. Established to collect steel scrap-regardless of cost-the most recent agency, War Materials, Inc., adds administrative problems to the already crowded field. Lacking the power to condemn needed items as well as the jurisdiction over...
...This bureau, which produces all printed material except radio and cable news, believes that an air-dropped leaflet is more to the citizen of an occupied country than radio news. A leaflet-or a package of matches-is physical evidence that the U.S. is there...
...branches of the Overseas Outpost Bureau (chief: Harold K. Guinzburg, owner of Viking Press) are the eyes, ears and distributing agents for the Overseas Branch. Most of them are just getting into operation. The branch chiefs are mostly ex-foreign correspondents like Wallace Carroll (London), former head of the U.P.'s London bureau; a couple of ex-drama critics like the New York Herald-Tribune's Richard Watts Jr. (Dublin) and Gilbert Gabriel (Anchorage) of Hearst's defunct New York American; ex-admen like J. Walter Thompson's M. L. Stiver (Canberra...
Nevertheless, he believes he can tot up some respectable credits. Before his outfit got going, there was almost no U.S. news in India's 500 newspapers. Today the Overseas Bureau is the India press's largest single news source. The Berlin radio is now taking considerable time and trouble to refute the arguments to the German people-proof that the Germans are listening...
...with a lusty boatload of ditch diggers, carpenters, welders, structural iron workers and cat-operators from Seattle. "There were not many women aboard-only a few school teachers and Army and Navy wives, a prostitute and a giggling 250-pound redhead who had arranged her trip through a matrimonial bureau." Miss Potter "heard one well-soused carpenter tell the purser 'Who the hell wants to go up there anyway...