Word: bureau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jesse Donaldson, 62, knows almost everything about the department whose 385,000 employees daily serve more of the U.S. people than any other Government bureau. Two years ago he got about as high as a letter carrier could hope...
...eight-column story on the life & works of David Alfaro Siqueiros, Mexican painter-soldier-politician, in the Nov. 10 issue is, to a large extent, the result of a year's acquaintanceship between Artist Siqueiros and John Stanton, chief of TIME Inc.'s Mexico City bureau. Because the detail and sound analysis of Stanton's research also showed a warm understanding of Mexican ways, I asked him to tell me about the business of being a correspondent in Mexico as it applied to the Siqueiros story. This is his reply...
TIME'S London bureau cabled last week: "The secret of Douglas' success in dealing with Britons is that he remains thoroughly American, yet manages to be the complete antithesis of the grotesque caricature so many Britons have built up of the typical American: loudmouthed, loud-suited and inclined to give a condescending slap on the aching British back...
Bigger & Bigger. The gross national product in the third quarter of this year rose to a record annual rate of $232 billion up $10 billion since the first quarter. Much of the rise was due to higher prices. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that retail food prices jumped 3.6% during the month ending Sept. 15, reaching a new record high (203.5% of the 1935-39 average) for the fourth consecutive month...
...Forty-nine-year-old Alfred Nessler of Schenectady made a new world's record by keeping his pipe going without relighting for 87 minutes and 55 seconds. ¶ One out of every four workers in U.S. factories is a woman, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported. In 1947, 3,100,000 women worked in factories, 800,000 more than...