Word: bureau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...advent of Hemisphere has been preceded during the last few years by a gradual reorganization and strengthening of TIME'S network of reporters in Canada and Latin America. With one exception (The New York Times), TIME was the first U.S. publication to maintain a regular news bureau in Canada and in Latin America. At present we have three news bureaus in Canada -in Ottawa, Montreal and Toronto- each headed by a bureau chief, and 24 local correspondents (called "string correspondents" or "stringers") in as many cities scattered throughout the Dominion. Each is a reporter or editor for a local...
Many thought they heard a faint warning when the Bureau of the Census announced that employment had fallen off by 700,000 jobs since December, and that another 2,000,000 people were working less than full time. Actually, this sounded worse than it was. January employment is always less than December's, when the Christmas trade is glowing; 351,000 more were in jobs than were working in January 1948. Wholesale food prices were also dropping sharply-the Dun & Bradstreet wholesale food price index was the lowest since...
Sargent's central intelligence bureau for his campaign against Harvard is a three story Colonial Brookline house which he calls the "factory." Here Sargent compiles, writes, and edits his own material, surrounded by a near-impenetrable disarray of books, papers, old manuscripts, and two harrassed secretaries...
...mistake of unskilled rainmakers, Langmuir explained, looking coldly at the Weather Bureau, is that they don't pick the right kind of cloud. Unless at least part of the cloud is below freezing, the dry ice will not work. Another mistake: using too much dry ice. A few pounds per mile are usually enough. If the plane dumps too much, too many ice particles are formed. They are so light that they do not fall. The overdose of dry ice merely turns the cloud of water droplets into a cloud of floating ice crystals...
Born. To Benjamin Welles, 32, elder son of ex-Diplomat Sumner Welles and New York Timesman in the London bureau, and Cynthia Monteith Welles, 31, ex-wife of Lord Beaverbrook's son Max: their first child, a daughter; in London. Name: Serena. Weight...