Word: bureau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...significant U.S. military mission arrived in London this week. Leading it were Lieut. General Henry H. Arnold, Army Air Force Chief, and Rear Admiral John H. Towers, chief of the Navy's aeronautics bureau. U.S. pilots & planes had already arrived to bolster the R.A.F.'s second front in the air; now the nation's two air chiefs followed...
Somebody from the Bureau of Special Services of Time, Inc., sent us an advanced copy of Time Magazine's current section on Education. Paternally labeling their feature "Last Days of School," the editors of Time kicked around the parts of speech for a full page, all to prove that "Students . . . are willing to give their lives. There is no evasion, no protest . . . they can take care of their country and themselves in battle...
Application blanks may be obtained from the War Service Information Bureau, Room R, University Hall...
...lonely, stubborn champion of "volun-tary" war bond sales, Henry Morgenthau last week saw ominous clouds of opposition gathering. Marriner Eccles of the Federal Reserve, Harold Smith of the Budget Bureau, Leon Henderson of OPA had ganged up against him, to champion forced savings. So Henry the Morgue pondered his own dozen schemes for raising money the voluntary way and took stock of results to date. In the twelve months to the end of April, the Federal debt had increased $17 billions. That was a fair measure of Henry's success in selling Treasury securities. Only...
...shipping, U.S. coffee imports have been dwindling. In April only 1,000,000 bags were unloaded on U.S. docks, 40% less than three months before. Furthermore, U.S. stocks of coffee last December were about 4,000,000 bags, enough for three months; by May 1, according to Commodity Research Bureau figures, they were down to 3,140,000 bags. But more supplies are in prospect and U.S. coffee-fiends need not fear any immediate shortage. Meanwhile the Army is boosting U.S. coffee consumption to all-time records. A soldier drinks 45 lb. of coffee a. year, twice as much...