Word: bureau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Naval Affairs Committee approved a $300,000,000 appropriation to modernize the Navy's out-of-date anti-aircraft defense (TIME, Oct. 14), its square-rigged chairman, Georgia's Carl Vinson, had a Navy secret in his pocket-an official tabulation, prepared by the Navy's Bureau of Ships, of vessels under construction, showing types, numbers and the location of yards where they are being built...
Chairman Vinson spilled the secret after telling the Bureau of Ships that he intended to do so. One morning Rear Admiral Walter Stratton Anderson, director of Naval Intelligence, woke up to find the Navy's precious table printed in an extension of Vinson's remarks in the Congressional Record (whence it was speedily extracted by the press). Put down in one place for all to see, the Navy's summary was probably more complete than any that a foreign agent could compile from the most careful collection of individual contract announcements...
...Other well-known women doctors: Dr. Gladys Dick of Chicago who discovered the scarlet fever germ, famed Princeton Pediatrician Sara Josephine Baker, founder of New York City's Bureau of Child Hygiene, Columbia University Surgeon Barbara Bartlett Stimson, Philadelphia Public Health Expert Martha Tracy, Head of the American Women's Hospitals Esther Pohl Lovejoy, and Chicago's Surgeon Bertha Van Hoosen (TIME...
...Thomas in the pages of The Nation, Heatter so fascinated Radioman Donald Flamm with his ideas that he was eventually signed up as a WMCA news commentator at $35 a week, later moved on to MBS. Today he takes in some $130,000 a year from the WOR Artists Bureau which handles...
...Bureau of Supervisors was set up as an advisory board of tutors sanctioned by the University to assist students who had difficulty in adjusting themselves to College life, or who were having trouble with their studies