Word: bureau
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...phone of the weather bureau at Logan Airport was tied up all evening...
...press. In the Indian Treaty Room of Washington's old Executive Office Building, advance copies were being handed out to the press from three pushcarts. Near the head of the line that had formed was John Brown, a messenger working for TIME'S Washington Bureau. He placed ten copies in a suitcase and headed for the airport. Less than two hours later, copies were turned over to a team assigned to prepare the special section-Nation Editor Champ Clark, Writers Marshall Loeb and William Johnson, Researchers Harriet Heck and Pat Gordon. They closed their doors and started reading...
...issues on the voter, one may recall last year's Wheat Referendum in which over a million wheat growers participated. Secretary of Agricultture Freeman warned that the defeat of the wheat control program would mean a thirty per cent drop in farm income, but the farmers followed the Farm Bureau's slogan, "for freedom, vote 'no'", and a majority voted against the Administration's proposal. It may be difficult for Eastern liberals to understand, but in those states from which Goldwater gathered his principal support at the convention the nostalagia for "laisseslaire" freedom is as real as the hope...
Motoring back to Moscow, Schwirkmann complained of fatigue and piercing pains in his left leg. In the capital, a U.S. embassy doctor called on to treat Schwirkmann diagnosed severe acid burns and recommended that the victim be rushed to West Germany for hospital care. But the Intourist travel bureau reported falsely that all flights were booked up, and it took two days to fly Schwirkmann out to Bonn, where it was discovered that he had been sprayed with a liquid form of mustard gas. Last week he was in serious condition but recovering...
...radio investments. The FCC reckons that two-thirds of the owners pay practically no taxes, thanks to depreciation rules that permit writeoffs over an average of eight years. The men who make the rules are quick to take advantage of them. Edmund C. Bunker, president of the Radio Advertising Bureau, estimates that one-third of the members of Congress have interests in broadcasting...