Word: bureaumen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During the last three months two members of our Washington bureau have traveled 10,000 miles just keeping up with two of the U.S.'s leading politicians. Their journeying is a forerunner and a token of the thousands of miles TIME'S bureaumen and correspondents throughout the country will travel next year covering the national campaign to elect a 33d President...
That sort of news gathering would be almost routine to our correspondents in China. China is so big, its rail and road facilities so limited, that the news cannot be covered adequately without air travel. So far this year our bureaumen there have logged 61,000 air miles under, to say the least, Spartan conditions. Generally, they have to ride strapped to bucket seats and hounded by cargoes of currency, munitions, gasoline, melons, bedding, furs, mail, pork, wheat, etc. roped roof-high down the middle aisle. It gives you, they claim, that "living-on-borrowed-time feeling." Shanghai Bureau Chief...
...date, Personal Shopping (which operates solely for the benefit of TLI bureaumen) has been a constantly expanding service, and Buckner, who has to purchase many of the "rush" items himself, is now quite at home in the unmentionables departments of Manhattan's stores. He has had orders for almost everything, from washable dolls with eyes that open & close to automobile jack assemblies and girdles. The one constant in his business, however, is the three most requested items from all of TLI's bureaus throughout the world: cigarets, coffee, vitamin pills...
...Paris, bureaumen had thoughtfully tucked away such choice items as truffles, chestnuts and chocolates, and William Chapman's two small sons, Benny and Johnnie, eagerly awaited the appearance of their new Santa, Père Noel. In Buenos Aires, Christmas was certain to be one of the hottest days of summer, and most of the TIME staff would undoubtedly top off the day by going swimming. It was just as certain to be a white Christmas in Moscow, where Bureau Chief Craig Thompson and his wife were pointing for a Christmas Eve party at Spasso House, home...
...first out-of-town news bureau -in Chicago - 17 years ago. Now, under Bureau Chief Penrose Scull, it is a funnel for the news of the U.S.'s second largest city and the great slice of the Midwest stretching out from it. By virtue of being there, Chicago bureaumen, working closely with TIME correspondents in major cities within their area, can be expected to supply