Word: bureau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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City Press Bureau...
...said, WPB $1-a-year men generally were putting a brake on all-out war production by resisting all-out conversion of civilian industries to war work. In particular, Guthrie named Philip D. Reed, $120,000-a-year chairman of General Electric, $1-a-year head of the Bureau of Industry Branches. WP Boss Donald Nelson, embarrassed by the fuss, asked the Truman Committee to investigate...
Almost the entire entering class, exclusive of men already trained in ROTC, was examined Friday by officials from the Navy Ordnance and Navy Bureau of Supply and Accountings for tentative commissions, to be approved at the time of successful completion of the Business School course...
Later in the series of talks to be held each Wednesday at 4:30 P.M. will be discussions by Lydia H. deRoth, an English Air Raid Wardon, and Robert Knapp, Director of the Massachusetts Propaganda Research Bureau. The Committee believes that any information given to a Summer School audience composed of teachers and students from all over the country will be relayed to a far larger audience than talks to a normal undergraduate group...
...spent his Freshman year. He remembered climbing those stairs for the first time, a bag in either hand, hoping against hope that his trunk would be there waiting for him, and his whistle became almost a chortle as he thought of the ready bed and the tidy bureau drawers waiting in his House room. Visions of sweating Freshmen rummaging through trunks to find that dress shirt that just had to go at the bottom of the first drawer filled his mind, and even the heat could not melt his core of superciliousness when he stalked past the bewildered Freshman about...