Word: departmental
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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His father was a minor official in the Commerce Department's Coast & Geodetic Survey. His mother, descendant of Switzerland's first consul general to the U.S., was a strong-willed woman with a firm belief in the stern principles of Calvinism and a secure knowledge of what was...
An angry nation and an aroused Congress demanded that the U.S. Government enter the gang-busting business. The Department of Justice stepped forward with 21 ready-made laws that would give Director Hoover the power he needed, and Congress quickly passed them.
¶ Now that unemployment-insurance payments were costing the State of New York $7,500,000 a week, the State Labor Department made a harsh decision: from now on, the jobless would have to stay home instead of having their checks sent to vacation spots from the Catskills to Florida...
Department of Research. In its three hectic years, AEC has grown into something very like a federal department of research. Its three great national laboratories (Brookhaven on Long Island, Argonne at Chicago, and Oak Ridge, Tenn.) are becoming major centers of scientific life. Smaller AEC laboratories are sprouting up all...
Writing in the current Scientific Monthly, Drs. C. H. Hoffmann of the U.S. Department of Agriculture and J P Linuska of the Fish & Wildlife Service deftly spray this "childlike faith in what nature will provide" with mental DDT. Their conclusion is that the real DDT if used with reasonable care...