Word: bureau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...amount spent in five years' silver subsidy would run the executive, judicial & legislative branches of the U. S. Government for 25 years; that the average monthly outlay ($17,700,000) would run SEC or the Government Printing Office for over four and a half years; the Weather Bureau for three and a half years; the Public Health Service one year...
...Nebraska's aging George W. Norris rose in the Senate and declared: "Frankly I am worried about the activities of this Bureau." What worried him were recent arrests by G-Men in Detroit of 16 persons on charges of having assisted volunteers to enlist in the Loyalist Army in Spain...
Afternoon conferences on various subjects will be inaugurated next year, and the weekly evening dinners with important newspapers will be continued. Within the next few weeks, John Chamberlain editor of Fortune, Arthur Krock head or the Washington bureau of the New York Times, and Vincent Sheean, foreign correspondent are scheduled to talk to the Nieman Fellows...
...While we were fighting, I was working with the bureau of aircraft production in Washington," Professor Marks reflected. My associates and I were planning a tank that would run under the Rhine and come up the other bank. We were also working on a machine gun that would five ten times faster than any before...
...answer, the penalty can be $100 fine or 60 days in jail. For intentionally giving false information, $500 or a year. For census takers who gossip: up to $2,000 fine, or five years in jail. Census dossiers are available to no one but the censusee and the Census Bureau. Reassuring note to balky censusees: "You're just a statistic...