Word: bureaus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this does not include the names of 14 other employees who resigned their jobs for the duration to do special work for the OFF, COI, Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs and other government bureaus and agencies. Nor does it include correspondents Carl and Shelley Mydans, who were taken prisoner by the Japs and interned at Santo Tomas University in the Philippines (we have just received the cheering news that they were recently transferred to Shanghai, where the first thing Shelley did was to hunt up a hairdresser...
Government bureaus, once established, are the next thing to immortal. Thus noteworthy last week was the death of the Electric Home & Farm Authority, set up in 1935 to help farmers and homeowners buy appliances on the installment plan. Like the only other significant New Deal agencies to pass away before it (NRA, killed by the Supreme Court, and CCC, abolished because all physically fit youths are needed in the Army), EHFA died of an incurable disease: there are no more electrical appliances to buy on any kind of plan. Its epitaph was written by the New York Sun: "The manner...
...Plan was worked out with German thoroughness and handed to Laval. German factories' requests for labor were sent to recruiting service bureaus, in both Occupied and Unoccupied France, which referred them to French factories whose workers came up to the desired specifications. Here lists had already been made up of all men between 18 and 50 with fewer than three living children. For every 25 workers, a foreman was taken; for every 50 workers, an engineer. The entire group then proceeded to Germany to take over the operation of a factory or shop...
...Towers became a vice admiral fortnight ago and was relegated to the Pacific (TIME, Sept. 28), Flyer Ralph E. Davison, Assistant Chief of the Bureau of Aeronautics, became a rear admiral. This promotion was no sop to Navy airmen when they learned that six assistant chiefs of other Navy bureaus got flag rank at the same time. But this week the airmen had cause to be pleased: 150 flyers were promoted from lieutenant commander to commander...
...bureaus shelved the Sims reports. Sims fumed that a man who would have to fight a ship could have no say in its design...