Word: bureau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...following summary of service conditions as they stand after recent changes was released yesterday by Elliot Perkins, Director of the War Service Information Bureau...
...defending champion was aging (66), opportunistic Edward Asbury O'Neal III, president of the big American Farm Bureau Federation (500,000 higher-income families) and an old-line professional farm leader who believes in inflation for farmers only, 110% of parity, scarcity farming (TIME, July...
...Treasury ran smack into a serious shortage problem last week when Internal Revenue Commissioner Guy Tresillian Helvering estimated that to collect the proposed 5% withholding tax on salaries his bureau would need 50,000 new machines and pieces of office equipment, plus 11,000 new employes. Private businesses would likewise need thousands of machines and payroll clerks...
This is a huge order: the 50,000 machines needed by Helvering's bureau alone total 30% of a normal year's output of all business machines (excluding typewriters). Worse still, WPB has already cut most office equipment companies to 70% of 1941 production, has ordered a dead stop by year...
...Children's Bureau estimated that twice as many boys & girls between 14 and 18 went to work in 1941 as in 1940 (the Bureau gave work certificates to 500,000), said the number mounted rapidly in 1942. Bureau Head Katharine F. Lenroot was plainly worried lest the exodus from school be too great...