Word: files
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Prepared for almost everything, Miss Burbank dutifully sewed on the button. She wants it known, however, that her powers are not unlimited, that she cannot conjure up hotel rooms, orchestra seats at the theater, etc. Lately, her card index file of New York City, which includes the subhead "Girls with Problems," has come to the attention of one of the world's older and one of its newer institutions. Good old Thomas Cook & Son, travel agents extraordinary, have examined it as a prelude to setting up a similar guide to London, and the United Nations has already adopted...
...translating such letters and a host of foreign periodicals ranging from the Russian Krokodil to the Neue Schweizer Rundschau may fall to almost anybody in TIME'S employ-in or out of the Editorial Departments. TIME'S Personnel Division keeps a file of everyone in the company who speaks any foreign language fluently. (In case there is a sudden need for quick translation, we can be fluent at the drop of a telephone in 28 languages ranging from Afrikaans to Ukrainian...
Veterans who will not be here to receive their August subsistence chocks must file temporary changes of address at Weld Hall before Monday if they wish to receive the check at their between-terms address...
...Arctic (30 years later he jailed the policeman who had arrested him). By 1912 he was helping Joseph Stalin to edit a small sheet called Pravda, and by 1917 he had risen to a dizzy revolutionary height where Lenin himself noticed Molotov; Lenin called him "the best file clerk in Russia...
...turned up under the simmering political pots in New York and they began to boil. The machine-run nominating conventions were only a couple of weeks off. It was getting closer to the time when top politicos would have to pick their men, pass the word to the rank-&-file...