Word: bureaus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Through the '30s, TIME moved very reluctantly into the field of direct reporting. It feared the loss of a unique quality in the Newsmagazine-its coherence, its perspective. Wouldn't a lot of TIME bureaus change the Newsmagazine into just another grabbag of unrelated reports from hither...
Prepared in part by Robert E. Evans '46, Alfred M. Goodloe, Jr. '50, and John B. Decker '51, the information has been culled from European embassies, travel bureaus, and world-wide universities...
...Weather bureaus, Stetson admits, can make little practical use out of sunspot cycle data, since they only suggest trends and nothing more. Furthermore, it is is impossible to tell where the effect will be felt. Last winter the apex of sunspot activity was received in Europe, and this winter a shift to the North American Continent has occurred...
...knockout punch in the spring of 1940 when the University made liable to disciplinary action any student using their services. The official ban ended a year-long campaign which was started after a Student Council poll showed that more than two-thirds of the student body frequented cram bureaus...
...Reporter Breslin stood at the side of U.S. 112 near Willow Run, and stuck out his thumb. He had a $50 bill, a sign that said "Rose Bowl or Bust," a box of his mother's chicken sandwiches, and letters to wirephoto bureaus along the way. At 6:30 p.m., chilled to the bone (and with $47.86 left) he got to Coldwater, Mich., 114 miles from home...