Word: bureau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...General Frederick LeRoy Martin, 59, was relieved as Hawaiian Air Force Commander. In their places: > As Commander of the Pacific Fleet, a calm, frosty-faced, steel-blue-eyed Texan, one of the Navy's best strategists and administrators, Rear Admiral Chester William ("Cottonhead") Nimitz, 56, Chief of the Bureau of Navigation. To command until Nimitz arrived: Vice Admiral William Satterlee Pye, 61, Battle Force Commander...
...President appointed one of the toughest "sundowners"* of them all as CINCUS. To be field boss of all the U.S. Navy in all seas he named Admiral Ernest Joseph King, 63, egg-bald, nitroglycerine-tempered, two-fisted, acid-tongued Commander of the Atlantic Fleet (CINCLANT), onetime Aeronautics Bureau Chief. To replace King as CINCLANT he raised small Rear Admiral Royal Eason Ingersoll, 53, at present Assistant Chief of Naval Operations, an exacting, reserved veteran. The promoted admirals were "taut ship" commanders (meaning rigid disciplinarians, as opposed to "happy ship" officers). Air-power exponents were speechless with happiness: for the first...
...investment into an ordnance empire with assets of more than $6,000,000 (TIME, Nov. 3). One was Franklin Roosevelt's old friend Thomas Gardiner ("Tommy the Cork") Corcoran. One was a lanky, jug-eared bureaucrat, Charles Franklin West, who no longer has a bureau...
...moved from Washington, by the President's order, are twelve agencies with some 10,000 employes. Most important: the Patent Office (to New York City); Securities & Exchange Commission and the Bureau of Old-Age and Survivors Insurance of the Social Security Board (to Philadelphia); Railroad Retirement Board (to Chicago); Farm Security Administration and Rural Electrification Administration (to St. Louis); the Labor Department's Wage & Hour Division (to Pittsburgh...
...Washington plans to ban them. Army & Navy experts have decided that that kind of weather information could be too useful to enemy aircraft. Strictly local forecasts* will be permitted. Florida fruit and vegetable growers who worry all winter about killing frosts will continue to get advance information. But Weather Bureau officials predicted that there would be no more wide regional forecasts, detailed information about direction and force of winds, storm centers and storm paths, areas of high and low pressure...