Word: bureau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bureau of the Census announced that one out of every eight married persons in the U.S. has been married more than once. The Gallup poll reported that only 49% of U.S. husbands & wives would remarry their present partners if they had the chance of starting over again...
This winter the western half of the U.S. got its worst weather in history, and the eastern half some of its mildest. The U.S. Weather Bureau, looking on the dark (or cold) side, regards the 1948-49 winter as the hardest ever-worse in most respects than the winter of 1937. The records are not all in (spring does not come officially until March 21), but already the bureau has a fine collection of weather aberrations and never-befores...
TIME'S Paris Bureau Head Andre La-guerre cabled: "The Communists are being smoked out. There are 99 chances in 100 that France will have to face and solve her Communist problem before the free world can solve its bigger problem...
With a good sense of public relations, G.M. timed its action to coincide with company-wide wage reductions of 2? an hour under its escalator "cost-of-living" contract. (Wage rates are adjusted up or down quarterly, 1? for every 1.14 point change in the Bureau of Labor Statistics cost-of-living index.) Said G.M.'s President Charles E. Wilson: the markdown was intended to "pass along to consumers the savings resulting from both the downward adjustment of wage and salary payments and the lowered cost of certain material items...
...United States Weather Bureau will offer four students the opportunity to travel to the Arctic next summer, Assistant Dean Norman Harrower, Jr. '09 announced yesterday...