Word: bureau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...days later the Census Bureau issued a reassuring report: 86.5% of U.S. adults have at least a fourth-grade education; more than half finished grammar school; almost a quarter graduated from high school; 4.6% are college graduates. People were still confused...
...Germany can make gasoline-floods of it, in fact-out of coal, then the U.S. can do it too, and probably a darn sight better! Not only can but should, agreed Harold Ickes, his Bureau of Mines and the Senate Appropriations Committee last week. They plan to build an $85,000 pilot plant at Pittsburgh to imitate the German hydrogenation techniques whereby carbon (from coal) is combined with hydrogen to form the group of light hydrocarbon compounds called gasoline...
...Germans, of course, have almost no petroleum. But neither (relatively speaking) has the U.S. Any day now-perhaps in only 15 years-the last U.S. oil wells will begin to gurgle, gasp and dry up. And, said the Bureau of Mines last week, look at synthetic rubber: we all wish serious work on that had begun before last Dec 7. Look also at Alaska: it has lots of coal and no oil,* and perhaps gasoline can be made on the spot cheaper than it can be hauled in by tanker (though Alaska's chief ports are no farther from...
...Bureau of Mines experts forgot that their colleagues in the U.S. Geological survey have found "at least three large areas" in Alaska which look potential oilfields...
...President Roosevelt decided that, before he orders nationwide gasoline rationing to save rubber, some bureau had better make a nationwide survey of just how much scrap rubber there...