Word: bureau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Garden of Eden. In the travel-bureau ads, Hawaii is the Garden of Eden. As far as oceanographers are concerned, it is a well-nigh totally submerged volcanic range spread across 2,000 miles of ocean. Its economic orbit includes six chief islands, of which Kauai is furthest west. The archipelago's commercial heart is the city of Honolulu (pop. 267,000), on Oahu, which is Eden-with a touch of Indianapolis...
...cabinet, with the exception of the auditor and treasurer. "There is no more reason for the people to elect an attorney general or a secretary of state than there is for them to get the itch." He took a dim view of doing departmental business by commission, board or bureau. "After 14 years of Washington's experience with government by bureaus," said Republican Sigler, "we know it didn't work. Every time you set up a bureau, you get the business of government further away from the people...
Died. Major General Alexander Day Surles, 61, leathery, bowlegged ex-cavalryman who ran the Army's Bureau of Public Relations from 1941 to 1945; of a pulmonary ailment; in Washington. Tethered to the Pentagon after 34 years of service, mostly with tactical outfits, Old Horseman Day Surles champed at the bit all through World War II, did his creditable best with the vast, tape-tangled B.P.R., silently took the rap for many a public relations bungle by underlings and superiors...
That was where he had to go-Weld Hall, the placement bureau. He didn't want to be placed, not till June at any rate. Trees, snow, dying ivy, He would put off the placement people at least for a little while. College was here and now. Vag made a resolution to stop treasuring each month until June, for then he'd be prepared to face the outside. And he certainly wanted to-in June. Until then there was Christmas and asking and the spring months, Mission accomplished, thought Vag, standing at the Thayer Gate, so he turned around...
...Since 1940, the population of the U.S. has increased almost 10%, now stands at 144,708,000, according to a Census Bureau estimate. The overcrowded New York-New Jersey-Connecticut metropolitan area hit a record high...