Word: bureau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years as a weatherman-five of them as chief meteorologist for the city of New York-Benjamin Parry has seen vast improvements in weather predictions and weather service. The Weather Bureau (which once closed up shop every night at 10) now gives 24-hour service, predicts minimum & maximum temperatures, wind velocities, and types and volume of precipitation...
During the crisis stage of the battle for Suchow last month, Fred Gruin, TIME Inc.'s Nanking bureau chief, was faced with the prospect of either getting a correspondent and a photographer to the front for an eyewitness account of the fighting or confessing to his editors in New York that he did not know the score. Both the Nationalists and the Communists were claiming the victory...
...Cocoon. Two more men entered the case. Both had been accused by Chambers as having given him papers from Government offices. One of them was William Ward Pigman, former employee of the Bureau of Standards, now a chemist with the Institute of Paper Chemistry at Appleton, Wis. He was questioned only by the grand jury; in a public statement he denied the charge...
...them: Wayne Coy, former assistant director of the Bureau of the Budget, now chairman...
...TIME'S Paris Bureau Chief André Laguerre, who was visiting Spain last week, a Madrid policeman said: "Things are bad and getting worse. We're getting into an inflationary situation. I have a wife and child, and my pay is 14 pesetas [about 50? on the free market] a day. I can't manage much longer. I hope to go to France. I hate to leave Spain, but I'll go anywhere I can make a living...