Word: bureau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Budget Bureau's newest estimates put war spendings for fiscal 1943 at $78 billion. No matter how fast taxes race, war spending goes faster...
These directives determine the tone of U.S. propaganda, but not its content. That is primarily the concern of Operations' International Press & Radio Bureau, which writes all the propaganda that the air waves and cables carry. Bureau Chief Joe Barnes, former foreign news editor of the New York Herald Tribune, and his staff of onetime newspaper, magazine and radio writers turn out enough copy to supply 250 radio shows a day and to service newspapers all over the world...
...propaganda has been spot news. The bureau works on the theory that average Europeans, deafened by a decade of intensive Axis propaganda, won't listen to anything but news on the radio...
Although Joe Barnes's bureau has plenty to say, it hasn't much to say it with. Its chief outlets are the 14 U.S. international short-wave broadcasting stations. Their expansion is in the hands of Operations' Communications Facilities Bureau, whose chief is ex-CBSman Murry Brophy. Some day Brophy hopes to have 36 transmitters for world coverage. Germany alone...
Gadget Propaganda. Propaganda is also magazines, movies, handbills, leaflets for bombers to drop, soap, matches, shoelaces, games, puzzles, gadgets of all sorts, packaged to carry a message. These are the domain of Operations' Overseas Publications Bureau, headed by ex-Associated Pressman Ed Stanley. They are the work of such once highly paid talents as Artist-Humorist Ludwig Bemelmans, Scenarist Robert Riskin (Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, etc.), Novelist Jerome (I Can Get It for You Wholesale) Weidmann, Author Humphrey Cobb (Paths of Glory), Adman Ted Patrick and others...