Word: bureau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Emerson's post, originally known as the Bureau of Insular Affairs, was created to coordinate the governments of the colonies. The department of State, the War Department, and the Department of the Navy each govern the possessions under their respective jurisdictions...
Attempting to reach an out-of-court settlement in the contempt proceedings brought by the Macmillan Company, publishers, against the College Tutoring Bureau, attorneys for both sides yesterday secured a week's postponement of the preliminary hearings which had been scheduled to be held before the U.S. District Court of Massachusetts yesterday afternoon...
...motion filed Tuesday, the publishing firm asked the Federal Court in Boston to held the College Tutoring Bureau's proprietors. Joseph R. Hurvitz and Abraham Segel, in contempt of court for violating an injunction obtained in 1933 against the Bureau for copyright infractions...
...court order which the Macmillan Company charges is being violated by Hurvitz and Segel was issued May 24, 1988 by District Judge Elisha H. Brewster in answer to complaints by four publishing houses that their books were being pirated in the notes and outlines issued by the Bureau...
...Denver, Reginald Scott Dean of the U. S. Bureau of Mines held up pieces of steel and brass, dropped them on the floor. They clanged. Mr. Dean then dropped a piece of another metal. There was a faint thump. This "noiseless" metal, as strong and elastic as mild steel, is a heat-treated alloy of copper and manganese. "This," said Metallurgist Dean, "opens up many new possibilities-chatterless spring suspensions, noiseless gears, a muffler for a whole host of bothersome industrial sounds...