Word: bureau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Adviser To reduce delay and remove confusion around his own desk, Franklin Roosevelt last week appointed short, stumpy Isador Lubin, 44, head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, to tell him what is what among figures. There will be plenty of work for Lubin. Today nearly every visitor to the White House comes armed with statistics to back his arguments. Usually there is a delay-which sometimes, as in fights over steel capacity, turns into monumental confusion-while conflicting figures are checked and argued over. Moreover, President Roosevelt, no economist, naturally leans toward the views of the men with...
...safety valve for some of the businessmen, economists, laborites at work on U.S. defense in Washington is the National Planning Association. More of a seminar than an association, NPA gives such men as OPM's Deputy Production Director William L. Batt, Labor Bureau Statistician and Machine-Tool Expert A. Ford Hinrichs, the Federal Reserve Board's (and Harvard's) Alvin Hansen a chance to get together, pool ideas. Published last week was a caustic NPA summary of what was talked about and concluded at a recent session...
...Administration has only had legal powers in Army and Navy contracts, but lacked mandatory priority power over contracts of the British and other foreign governments under the Lend-Lease Act, over industrial contracts for the expansion of production of scarce but vital materials, over other Federal bureau contracts (Maritime Commission, Panama Canal...
...production "so that the different materials, tools, machines, plants, workers are all available at the proper place and moment and in the proper numbers." In business, managers are sometimes called " 'production managers,' operating executives, superintendents, administrative engineers, supervisory technicians." In government they are called administrators, commissioners, bureau heads. "I mean by managers, in short, those who . . . are actually managing, on its technical side, the actual process of production, no matter what the legal and financial form-individual, corporate, governmental...
...Alexander Pope" by Dean Robert K. Root of Princeton; "The Church and Drama" by Karl Young of Yale; "Blueprint for American Literary History" by Robert E. Spiller of Swarthore; "The Crusades" by John L. Monte of Pennsylvania; "Structure in Liquids" by G. E. F. Lundell, Chief, Chemistry Division National Bureau of Standards; "Labor Law" by the Hon. Robert B. Watts, General Counsel National labor Relations Board; "One Hundred Years of Catalysis" by Hugh S. Taylor of Princeton; and "The Vitamin-B Complex" by Leopold Cerecedo of Fordham. A symposium on earthquakes and the structure of the earth will feature talks...