Word: bureau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Head of the Paris bureau of the Chicago Tribune when the war broke out, he returned to the U.S. soon after Dunkirk, after twelve years in Europe. Since then he has made a series of U.S. lecture tours, To his stranger's eyes the U.S. had many symptoms of the political disease which he had seen destroy France...
Just how much the refunds will be cannot be known until the, A.B.C. (Audit Bureau of Circulation) has reaudited True Story's circulation. Preparations for the reaudit were made a month ago when Circulation Manager Samuel Oliver Shapiro (rehired three months ago; he was circulation manager from 1934 to 1938) sent newsstand distributors a letter asking them "to come clean"-to tell just how many copies of True Story they had sold. He added that the new management was not to blame, wanted to clean up the mess...
Other costs have mounted too. Wages reached an all-time high. The National Industrial Conference Board put hourly factory-worker pay in February at 76?, 4? above a year ago. The Bureau of Labor Statistics' price index of industrial raw materials (August 1939-100) stood last week at 138.1, up 20% in twelve months...
Cooperating with the government in the national defense effort, the Business School ill turn over part of its buildings and grounds to the United States Navy Finance and Supply School in July for an indefinite period, Rear Admiral Ray Spear, Chief of the Navy Bureau of Supplies, announced yesterday...
James Russell Young arrived in Japan as a footloose seaman on a German steamer, jumped ship to sell space for, become advertising manager of Tokyo's great English-language daily, the Japan Advertiser. He also became manager of the Tokyo Bureau of Hearst's International News Service and King Features Syndicate...