Word: brass
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Navy brass went on rebelling after unification of the armed services, however imperfect, became fact. In the end, a group of their most ardent officers rashly strove to put the Navy above the dictates of the Government. Last week the inevitable crash occurred. President Harry Truman, acting with brutal directness, removed the service's highest-ranking officer, Admiral Louis E. Denfeld, as Chief of Naval Operations...
...gambled his season's savings on the stampede, hardly knowing why. The miners demanded that the original nuggets be sent to Fairbanks to be tested. Next day a plane brought copies of the Fairbanks News-Miner with a sad story. All but two of the nuggets were brass. And the two (total worth: $2) were worn, as if they had been carried for a long time in a poke or pocket...
...Hotheads along the riverbank cried that the ground had been "salted," began talking wildly of seeking someone to lynch. But who? Nobody had gained by the strike but the bush pilots, and none of the gold seekers believed a bush pilot was capable of such villainy. Some guessed the brass had come from the fittings of a Yukon River steamer, the worn gold from a forgotten prospector's cache. But geologists announced that bedrock at Fishwheel was 200 feet down and that all gold was bound to sink. Nobody solved the mystery. The boom collapsed. Disgusted men began flying...
...General Kenney Reports is essentially a fighting man's story, the day-to-day record of jobs to be done, the planes sent up to do them, U.S. and enemy losses. But in at least one respect, brusque George Kenney is more forthright than any of the high brass have been in books far. Those he considered incompetent he calls by name, and some of them were generals...
Among others banged by Brass Knocker Kenney...