Word: bureau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Organization. The Allies, in espionage as in war, floundered along in traditional forms: spying was essentially military, to be practised by professionals. Unfortunately they had to cope with an enemy which, having revolutionized warfare, revolutionized espionage too. While France's time-honored Deuxième Bureau hopefully trained its second-string Mata Haris, and while Prime Ministers Chamberlain and Baldwin blandly ignored as "exaggerated" (substitute Hitler's "improbable") the catastrophic findings of Britain's brilliant 64, the Germans set in motion "the greatest espionage organization that had ever existed." Typically, Goebbels compiled a blacklist...
Last week 200 educators, policemen, parole officers, lawyers, businessmen, social workers, magistrates were gathered by the Social Service Bureau of the city's Magistrate's Courts to consider what to do about Harlem's poverty, overcrowding, fabulously high rents for miserable tenements, broken homes, immorality, old unsanitary schools, lack of sufficient playgrounds,* unemployed Negroes. (Of 1,400 Negro boys recently trained by the city's schools for defense work, only 70 got jobs...
...themselves, the figures prove that money is circulating fast & furiously. But when they are compared with the Bureau of Labor's cost of living index, they become ominous (see chart). U.S. purchasing power (income divided by living costs) has soared since war's beginning, is higher than ever before. The widening gap between living costs and purchasing power is the "extra money" Treasury
...huddle with their industry representatives, develop a "requirements program" for each industry; 2) the "end-products" sections are then to discuss their needs with the OPM raw materials branches involved, scale them down if necessary, but arrive at some minimum figure; 3) OPM's Industrial Conservation Bureau is to advise on possible simplification, substitution etc.; 4) SPAB is to get the finished program, send it to Priorities for actual allocation of materials...
...variation of this process is being perfected by Metallurgist Henry Alfred Doerner of the U.S. Bureau of Mines who claims that when a chill spray of oil is substituted for the Hansgirg cooling gas the magnesium is rendered nonexplosive by an easily removable oily film which forms on the powder grains. The process has been developed at Washington State College and will probably be used in a 12,000-ton plant at Spokane where magnesium deposits adjoin Grand Coulee's cheap power...