Word: branch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Describing his bureau's job, William C. Herrington, head of the branch here, said, "Our three-fold purpose is to find out the conditions of marine fisheries, to find the cause of any poor conditions we may uncover, and to develop proper remedial management means to increase and maintain good fishing yields...
...things he saw on his desk was a new plan to reorganize the disorganized, ring around-the-rosy Washington steel muddle into one sense-making package. The plan had its genesis one evening two months ago when Elder Statesman Bernard M. Baruch dined with Don Nelson and his Steel Branch Chief Reese Taylor. Baruch, reminiscing about World War I, recalled that he had set up one steel section, under Steelman J. Leonard Replogle (now adviser to the Army & Navy Munitions Board). Replogle controlled steel from priorities to production. He was responsible only to Baruch...
...order to provide a permanent mailing address for officers, and in order to plan activities for their wives, every man coming here for training or research is required to fill out an information card, answering such questions as his marriage status, his occupation and his branch of the service. These are kept on file in the committee office. The office secretary, in charge of the files, is always available to answer any questions for bewildered newcomers...
...illustration of the part athletes are playing in the war at present," asserted Harlow, "is Harvard's 1937 football team." All members of this team who received letters are now in some branch of the service, according to the Crimson coach...
...Government now began an ambitious educational program. Returning to Washington last week, Librarian of Congress Archibald MacLeish left behind in London a new Office of War Information branch, headed by onetime Banker James Paul Warburg. It has four functions: 1) supplying U.S. information to Britons, a job to be directed by able, young New York Timesman James B. Reston who spent four years in England covering British affairs; 2) conducting political (i.e., propaganda) warfare in enemy countries; 3) rebroadcasting U.S. short-wave programs from Britain; 4) improving relations between U.S. soldiers and Britons...