Word: bureau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...scoop, many a phony tip, many a headache. But last week "Cissie" Patterson got her money's worth. From a news tip, a crew of four male reporters from her newshen-house unearthed a story that scooped the entire U. S. press and the Government-particularly the Federal Bureau of Investigation...
Cissie Patterson's Bureau of Investigation, headed by her eye's apple, tall, lean, tough, red-haired Reporter Jimmy Cullinane, found that...
...fishing tackle, butterfly collections, other valuables. With little enthusiasm, women souvenir hunters and secondhand dealers bid for the rest, a motley collection of old juvenile books, pottery, bedraggled furniture. High bid of ?55 was for a piano. A settee from the Chamberlain drawing room went for ?7; an oak bureau with graduated drawers, for "accommodating birds' eggs," for 15 shillings...
...never had tested Koatsal to find out what it could and could not do. Instead it relied on Bureau of Standards tests of another graphite lubricant...
...Bureau of Standards tests were seven years old at the time of the Kidder hearings, were described from memory by witnesses who had kept no records of them...