Word: staffs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...projects required immense capital outlay as well as unlimited confidence in Geoffrey Pyke, which is why most of them remained in the idea stage until he joined Lord Mountbatten's Combined Operations staff during the war. In that atmosphere of frenzied immediacy, amid the flinging about of millions of pounds and dollars, Geoffrey Pyke had his innings...
Whenever Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek had a big decision to make, he liked to get away from his desk for quiet meditation. Early last month he went to the summer capital, Kuling, with Madame Chiang and a small staff. When he did not return after the first few days, the rumor factories in Shanghai and Nanking got busy: the Gimo had been assassinated; he had gone mad; he was preparing to resign. One other rumor was actually true: the Generalissimo had indeed received additional U.S. technical help-he had just been fitted with a brand-new set of American false...
August 1929-TIME'S morgue began to grow from a file labeled by Foreign News Researcher Cecilia Schwind "material which ought to be kept." TIME'S morgue is now a vast fact silo with a staff of 57 people...
...sharper in detail, keener in insight, easier to read, understand and remember), can TIME overcome the disadvantage of being "late." When the advantage outweighs the disadvantage, TIME has a value; when it doesn't, TIME hasn't. That is the challenge that forces TIME'S staff to work under an hour-by-hour pressure quite as severe as the newspapers...
...Newsmagazine need not be changed by a newsgathering setup, TIME now has a world-covering organization. Working under Hulburd's direction are TIME bureaus in 13 U.S. and Canadian cities, plus 85 part-time stringers in other localities. In Washington, the TIME office has 13 correspondents and 14 staff assistants. Abroad, TIME has 15 bureaus in key cities and 36 stringers elsewhere...