Word: bureaus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...work of collecting "secret information" from Communist members and sympathizers in Washington. There were about 20 Communists she saw in Washington every other week or so; she said that there were 20 or 30 more men & women in the Government feeding information to her contacts. They were in wartime bureaus and in the Army, the Air Force, the State and Treasury Departments -almost every place except the Navy and the FBI. There was also "a man around the White House," who helped to place her informants in strategic spots...
...LIFE International (our 'round-the-world publishing and newsgathering operation), made the trip to present to British businessmen and government officials our recent survey The Market for United Kingdom Consumer Goods in the United States (A Letter from the Publisher, May 31); to visit some of our News Bureaus abroad; and to talk business with our distributing agent in Czechoslovakia, where TIME and LIFE are still banned...
...Wind. At the little frontier town of Oudjda, on the edge of the eastern Moroccan desert, anti-Jewish rumors had been sweeping through the bazaars as angrily as wind-whipped sand from the desert. Young Jews, whispered the Moslems, were slipping across the frontier at night to Israeli recruiting bureaus. Another rumor: a Jewish football club from Casablanca was collecting money in Oudjda for Israel's army. Jews spread counter-alarms about the Arabs, and tension rose...
...many seniors, it was as simple as that. Corporation talent scouts had swarmed into college employment bureaus, fighting for prospects. Columbia University figured that 80% of its graduating class would have jobs by July 1. The average M.I.T. senior, had six offers. Harvard Business School graduates were signing up for as much as $5,000 a year. Wellesley was "overwhelmed" with demands for secretaries...
Every spring, about the time the cherry blossoms open in Washington, the National Academy of Sciences there opens its great bronze doors. George Washington University and the National Bureau of Standards, with other Government bureaus, play host to the nation's scientists. Last week hundreds of them met for their annual round of scientific gossip...