Word: bureaus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chased him out of Prague. This summer he lost another assignment. Russia's new, ironclad press censorship had made transmission of news no longer practicable, forced him to close down the New York Times's 18-year-old Moscow bureau. There are now no U. S. newspaper bureaus...
...because after the crash in 1935 which killed Senator Bronson Cutting of New Mexico, Senator Lundeen voted to establish the independent Civil Aeronautics Authority (for air safety, development and regulation), and CAA was recently transferred to the Commerce Department. The crash also was a direct blow to several Government bureaus: aboard the ship, as it happened, were able younger employes of Internal Revenue...
...commission announced that Mr. Knudsen had painstakingly passed on $1,000,000,000 of equipment contracts. Aircraft Coordinator George Jackson Mead placed $100,000,000 of plane orders, got tape-wound Army & Navy bureaus to simplify their contradictory, wasteful systems of testing and buying planes and engines. Commissioner Stettinius cheerily reviewed his studies of raw materials which the U. S. would need and might not have in wartime, said: "The situation . . . is more hopeful than we anticipated six weeks ago. . . ." For an example of heartening speed, he told of hearing about a stock of tungsten and antimony "near Indo-China...
along with some 200 other Italian newsmen who worked for alien bureaus. Shortly thereafter, Arnaldo Cortesi left Italy, went to Mexico City for the Times. There, last week, he was once more in hot water, this time of his own heating...
...Chungking's population, estimated then at over 750,000. Police circulated through the city, first warning residents without domicile permits (issued after last May's terrible raids) to leave town, then sealing their houses. Cinemas, singsong halls, western-style restaurants were ordered closed. Schools and unessential Government bureaus were to be evacuated. The aim: a population reduced to 100,000. Last week's population...