Word: bureau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Amory Houghton '21, donor of the Houghton Rare Book Library, the Yard's latest building, has been appointed Deputy Bureau Chief of the new Bureau of Industry Operation, the War Production Board announced yesterday...
...stranger to big jobs is Admiral Robinson. For the past two years he has been in charge of the Navy's new Bureau of Ships, is rated in naval circles as the real powerhouse of the building program. Looking more like an underpaid bookkeeper than a military man, he appeared some 50 times before Congressional committees, patiently explaining the Navy's needs...
...Bureau of Ships, Robinson provided designs for whatever craft the office of the Chief of Naval Operations ordered...
Picking a ship, according to the Admiral, is like buying a hat. (In Navy slang, tentative ship designs are known as "spring styles.") Before the Navy decided on any one type of ship, the Bureau of Ships whipped up as many as ten different designs. After six or eight months of blueprint work, the designs were sent to the General Board, which eventually notified the Bureau what it fancied. The time between contract plans and working plans used to be from 15 to 18 months. Under Robinson, the time was cut to less than a year. Ably assisting...
Laying their heads together, Dr. Ross, Patric and Dr. Ting D. Lee, local head of the American Bureau for Medical Aid to China, drafted a circular to be packed with every 25 pairs of stockings. Written in Chinese and illustrated with drawings and photographs (see cut), it showed how to apply silk-stocking bandages...