Word: bureau
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...fallen to around $10 a car, with the result that many wreckers have allowed car carcasses to pile up, in hopes of a rise in the market. One hopeful cure for this national eyesore was proposed this month by Interior Secretary Stewart L. Udall, who announced that the Bureau of Mines has developed a new process that uses scrapped autos to upgrade nonmagnetic iron ore and make it suitable for steelmaking...
...Hertz Rent-a-Negro." White employers, if they would hire Negroes at all, used to go for light-complexioned ones, he observes. "Now they want the blackest faces they can find, and they put them all up in the front of the office." Only the weather bureau, in his view, is behind the times. Gregory threatens to picket the place unless the next hurricane is named some thing like Beulah...
Children's Bureau funds are appropriated for maternal and child welfare. Under the old policy, federal money was considered unavailable to support birth control, although family planners have long insisted that limiting children to the number that parents can support adequately is an essential feature of both maternal and child health...
...began writing Churchill's obituary, in fact, back in 1931, when he was struck by a Manhattan cab, and has updated it regularly since. The Chicago Daily News had on hand an obit written a decade ago by the late Ernie Hill, then the News's London bureau chief; it has been rewritten twice by Hill's successors. Three months ago, the New York Times assigned Assistant Managing Editor Harrison Salisbury and two more staffers to review Churchill's life and revise the Times's standing obituary...
Plywood, that prosaic sandwich of wood and glue, was long a low-prestige commodity used chiefly in such things as panel doors, ping-pong tables and bureau-drawer bottoms. No longer. Glamorized almost beyond recognition, it has taken on fancy surfaces, been merged with other materials and found its way into such diverse places as giant freeway signs, the stands for Lyndon Johnson's Inauguration and the outside walls of a 24-story building in San Francisco. Demand for plywood has doubled in the past seven years, and this year the $1 billion industry expects to sell a record...