Word: bureau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week inflation was no longer a future threat to the U.S., it was here. Since August 1939 (chosen by the Bureau of Labor Statistics as the index month for prices of 28 basic commodities) prices have risen steadily. After 23 months of piecemeal price control, the Administration and the House Banking & Currency Committee hacked out a tentative control bill. Last August the committee began hearings. After two weeks of desultory wrangling, the committeemen adjourned. The price index then had risen...
...weeks ago, while the riveters still rang their tattoo on Massachusetts' steel sides, Rear Admiral Samuel Murray Robinson wrote a memo to his boss on the progress his Bureau of Ships had made. Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox was so pleased that he had it fattened out with more facts and figures, gave the memo to the U.S. public...
...Edwin Meredith '42 will head a committee to investigate the temporary suspension of the Placement Bureau, announced by the University yesterday. Assisting him will be Coles H. Phinizy '42 and Endicott Peabody...
...Bureau will keep in touch with the various defense industries as much as it is able. It will keep track of possibilities in steel mills and airplane factories and of any openings, specialized and otherwise, that may result in deferment as "vital...
...University has found, according to Professor Casner, that many men, faced by the questioning officer when being examined at induction, forget any capabilities they may have. The Bureau will be able to prepare them for the questions they will face and to list the courses which they have taken at Harvard, such as languages or sciences, which they might otherwise neglect to mention...