Word: bureau
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hundred Holiday Inns, an Italian family at Radio City Music Hall, British motorists at Old Faithful-these are the newest innocents abroad. Since 1961, when Congress, hoping to reduce the balance-of-payments drain, set up the U.S. Travel Service as the nation's first official tourist bureau, the number of foreign visitors to America has more than doubled. This year 1,200,000 of them (excluding border crossers from Canada and Mexico) are busily proving for themselves the truth of Lord Bryce's 19th century axiom: "America excites an admiration which must be felt upon the spot...
...bare 13 months old and growing fast, ESSA has united the Weather Bureau, Coast & Geodetic Survey and the Bureau of Standards' Central Radio Propagation Laboratory, creating a 10,000-man agency under the Department of Commerce. As envisioned by President Johnson, it is to "provide a single national focus for our efforts to describe, understand and predict the state of the oceans, the state of the lower and upper atmosphere, and the size and shape of the earth...
...younger brother of Author Theodore), combines the talents of a no-nonsense executive with solid scientific vision. White comes to the job with a background in weather research, first with the Air Force, then as president of Travelers Research Center, Inc., and later as chief of the U.S. Weather Bureau. Most observers consider him superbly equipped to chart the new agency's $145 million budget, 14% of which is earmarked for both in-house and contracted research...
...budget is sure to sprout quickly. Recently, the President's Science Advisory Committee recommended combining the oceanographic functions of ESSA with those of the Geological Survey, Bureau of Commercial Fisheries, Bureau of Mines, and even the Coast Guard. Although the report stopped short of directly fingering ESSA to head this research, the logical conclusion is that ESSA may soon become the earth-bound parallel of space-bound NASA...
Seeking a Scapegoat. No investigation is needed to establish the major point: for the first time since the inflationary Korean War period, food prices are climbing faster than overall retail prices. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, food has gone up by 3½% in the past year; meat, fish and poultry 7½%, dairy products 5½%. Local situations dramatize the difficulty. In Chicago last week the retail price of butter was 93? per lb., up 12½? from last year. In Detroit, lettuce has gone from 20? a head to 29?, cabbage from...