Word: bureau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...engine in a single month). Many such changes make sense. A few are necessary. All delay production. Manufacturers understand that some mid-production alterations in both engines and planes are required. What grinds their gears is that responsible officers in the Army Air Corps and the Navy's Bureau of Aeronautics are so ostrich-blind as to insist that they now have standardization-thus postponing real standardization...
...underwriters and their 5,000 employes had moved down 60 feet into a $200,000 steel & Concrete sub-basement under Lloyd's which was used until break of war for storing records. In this huge and bustling shelter a barbershop, quick-lunch counter, tobacco stand and theatre-ticket bureau functioned busily...
...government technicians and government solar observation equipment will henceforth be located at the Harvard station. Weather bureau instruments for solar observation will be calibrated at the Harvard station, and the routine solar reports of other government observation will be received and edited here...
Harvard's observation has been carrying on study of the intensity of solar radiation for eight years, initiated by Herbert H. Kimball, research associate, who retired from the government Weather Bureau in 1932, and from the University last year...
...government technicians to be located at Blue Hill will be Irving F. Hand, of Washington, D. C.; and Mrs. Helen Cullinane, also of the Washington Bureau, formerly of Reading, Massachusetts...