Word: bureau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...days of helping students swap football tickets amongst themselves has proves the Student Council's newest bureau a popular innovation, Thomas A. Unverferth '51, co-chairman of the Student Welfare Committee, said last night...
Since the buyer of a non-transferable student ticket is held responsible for what happens to it, Bingham said that the new bureau may cause students to be blacklisted by the Athletic Association, by offering scalpers easy means of access to their choice seats...
...admits Dr. Alvin G. McNish of the National Bureau of Standards, the value for the speed of light may have to be changed officially. The new value suggested by Aslakson is 299,792 kilometers per second, a change of one foot in about four miles...
...most economical production techniques; standardized financing and accounting; an industry clinic in promotion and advertising; training courses in behavior for box office personnel, ushers, concessionaires and house managers; a credo pledging the theater to fair dealing, courtesy, comfort, efficient operation-with enforcement of ethical practices by the Better Business Bureau. Bernays would also harness women's clubs, youth groups, universities, cultural leaders, etc. into a vast public relations campaign for the theater...
...office seemed to be climbing steadily out of its long postwar slump. Last week the Bureau of Internal Revenue announced that August was the fourth month this year to run ahead of 1948's corresponding month in admissions tax returns. To make things even brighter, Dr. George Gallup's Audience Research, Inc. reported a steady fall in the average price of admission paid by U.S. moviegoers. With total receipts on the rise, that spelled growing attendance. The average spent for a ticket in August was 45?, compared to a postwar peak of 48.8? early in the year...