Word: bureau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...buying wave could stop this decline, give the bulls something to snort about. But new buying depends on inventories waiting to be consumed. National Industrial Conference Board summary of 500 leading companies shows a 13% increase in value of inventories since Labor Day. Last week the ordinarily sluggish Bureau of Labor Statistics' price index (which jumped at the outset of the war boom) dropped from 79.1 to 78.8. This was evidence of the pressure of surpluses, suggested that inventories have become a problem...
...last Friday's statement Blain Clark '40, former President, Sheffield West, former Managing Editor, Garfield Horn '40, former Editorial Chairman. John Sisson '40, former Business Manager, and Charles Pollak II '40, former Executive Editorf also labeled the College Tutoring Bureau, and Parker-Cramer along with Wolff as being "unethical...
...doctors," our "tooth doctors," proud, too, of our "service stations" activities on the side. But your choice of pictures and captions and your unfortunate selection of facts contrived, TIMEstyle, to present the country's fifth largest university as a big, sprawling, ungainly institution-partly trade school, partly convention bureau, partly "service station," but a University, hardly...
Ever since the beginning of World War II. the U. S. Weather Bureau's forecasts have been seriously handicapped. In prewar days, the Bureau received constant reports from foreign merchant ships fanned out along the Atlantic lanes. Now, fearful of divulging their positions to enemy raiders, ships move secretly, radios mum. Stations in England, not anxious to give weather tips to Nazi bombers, keep their reports dark. Even Canadian weather reports have stopped...
This week, to get for themselves the most perennially interesting and important news in the world, meteorologists from the U. S. Weather Bureau got ready, to sail on two 2,000-ton Coast Guard cutters, Duane and Bibbo, to permanent weather outposts on the Atlantic. At points one-third and two-thirds of the way between Bermuda and the Azores they will station, send up balloons with instruments to measure pressure, humidity and temperature, keep a constant, weather-wise eye on the sea, wireless their reports back to Washington...