Word: brass
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...husky C-54 transport nosed through the morning haze over Washington National Airport one day last week and coasted to a landing. Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson helped crewmen push a big aluminum ramp up to the plane while the rest of the Pentagon's top brass gathered round. A smartly uniformed honor guard snapped to salute, four 105-mm. guns boomed a 17-gun salute. General Lucius D. Clay hopped out and looked about him with the fixed smile and nervous glance of a man who was surprised by all the fuss. After four controversial years in Germany...
...pulled into Helmstedt, in the British zone, the city's brass band played a booming march of welcome. The townspeople waved and cheered. Over a loudspeaker came the voice of the stationmaster: "We heartily welcome the passengers on this first train out of Berlin. We want you to know how good we feel to be able to reunite our ties with all of you. May your journey be a pleasant...
There wasn't a policeman in sight, and the baby-faced young men had disappeared from the train. The passengers hung out the windows, applauding the wheezy brass band and waving back at the beaming townspeople. The blonde was crying...
Among his works is his "Apparebit Repentina Dies" for chorus and brass which was commissioned by the Harvard Music Department. It was performed by the Collegiate Chorale of New York under Robert Shaw's direction...
...Brass. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce elected a new president: the Bridgeport Brass Co.'s big, friendly President-Chairman Herman W. Steinkraus, 58. As boss of Bridgeport Brass's 5,000 employees, Steinkraus has not had a strike or a work stoppage, has been so successful at labor relations that other employers often seek him as a speaker on the subject. He succeeds General Electric's Vice President Earl O. Shreve...