Word: brains
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...camera found the Aces in their living room, with Jane putting aside a book (Brain Surgery, Self-Taught) to watch a short film called This...
...remained to Franklin D. Roosevelt to bring ghostwriting into prominence by employing such eminent men as Judge Samuel Rosenman, Playwright Robert Sherwood, Brain Truster Raymond Moley and Poet Archibald MacLeish. Dean of them all, and perhaps the shrewdest, was the late Charley Michelson, longtime pressagent for the Democratic Party, whose typewriter supplied uncounted Democratic bigwigs with taunts that made a whole generation of Republicans miserable...
...after all-but not in precisely the way rebellious Navy airmen had hoped. Instead of fighting it out with camera guns at 40,000 feet, they will have to leave the decision up to the 18,000 vacuum tubes of the Army's $400,000 electronic brain at the Aberdeen (Md.) Proving Ground...
There, scientists of the Weapons Systems Evaluation Group will load the brain with all available data on both planes: speed, range, altitude, rate of climb and fire power, along with such variables as weather, time of warning and accuracy. Then like a giant Bendix washer, the brain will whirl into action, stirring, scrambling, sorting, poking, prodding and reassembling the figures until the answer pops out next year, all set to be neatly starched and ironed. The only thing the machine won't do is make a decision...
...reaching this comfortable estate, Frank Costello had also achieved a peculiar but significant place in U.S. society. The rackets, like college football, the labor movement, and the care and breeding of Christmas trees, had inevitably become big business. The brain had replaced the muscle, the injunction had become more potent than the Tommy gun, and surviving warriors of prohibition upheld the status quo. Frank Costello, "legitimate businessman," dramatically typified the change...