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...Smithsonian Institution's Bureau of American Ethnology and various other authorities back up TIME'S translation of the Ojibway word ogontz (variants: ogans, ogah) as "pickerel'"' or "walleyed pike." Despite its name, this is a very respectable fish...
President Roosevelt last week set up the Office of Lend-Lease Administration, with snow-crested Edward R. Stettinius. Washington pun haters, noting the bureau's initials, grimly girded themselves. But after their bout with the initials of the Office of Facts & Figures (OFF), the town's punsters seemed exhausted, could offer little but "Praise OLLA...
Admiral Blandy's chief worry is about fire-control and optical instruments. High up on the Bureau of Ordnance's list of companies which rate a production E (for Excellence) is Bausch & Lomb. But, although it is working at top speed, it cannot supply all that the Ordnance Bureau needs. Says Admiral Blandy: "Consider that a single fire-control unit may weigh up to a ton, and that tolerances in that unit will scale down to .0005 of an inch, about half the thickness of a cigaret paper, and you'll see why we'd like...
...history of Washington press coverage was told last week in a thorough, readable, thoughtful book* by 37-year-old Delbert Clark, manager for the last eight years of the New York Times's Washington bureau. Less sociological than Leo Rosten's The Washington Correspondents, his book traces the astounding growth of the Washington press corps from the period when two Congressional stenographers served as part-time reporters, to the present when more than 500 elite newsmen enjoy semiofficial status. It does not spare correspondents' vanities and irresponsibilities nor "official efforts to conceal the unpalatable truth." Some...
...When the war is over, a majority of the Round Table favored 1) tapering off of war orders, with dismissal wages to aid reemployment; 2) a Government agency to supervise "economic demobilization," continuing as long as necessary OPM's and OPA's supply and price controls. Acting Bureau, of Labor Statistics Commissioner A. Ford Hinrichs described this agency's job as "priorities continued literally in reverse . . . favoring everything other than those [wartime] contracts." The Round Table also agreed with Defense Housing Coordinator Charles F. Palmer that housing is the best and biggest bet for post-war investment...