Word: brass
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gilded Bottoms. With the economy of the Good Neighbor thus bolstered, Mike Alemán was ready to see more of the U.S. Behind him was only one minor incident to disturb hemispheric solidarity. At a high-brass dinner in the Mexican Embassy, freshly applied gilt had come off the chairs onto the formal bottoms of such U.S. dignitaries as Senators Vandenberg and Connally, Secretary of Labor Lew Schwellenbach...
...blimps in action. For weeks, he painted nothing but blimps: in hangars, on submarine patrol, against the sunset. Standard Oil (N.J.) flew him to Venezuela to paint oil wells. The Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad put him on a private car ("You should have seen those huge bedrooms, with big brass beds in them") to picture the West Virginia countryside...
Last week, businessmen were told "yes." This time the telling was done, not by unions or other outsiders, but by industry's own National Planning Association's business committee. On it sits such industrial brass as Macy's Beardsley Ruml and General Electric's C. E. Wilson. Said N.P.A. in the bluntest warning business has yet received about its price policies: regardless of the reasons for the dangerous price situation, the responsibility for correcting it was "squarely up to businessmen. Other economic groups must cooperate. But it is to the risk-takers of our system that...
Last week, in the Brass Rail, the backing Jimmy was getting was pretty bad. The drum was off the beat and wife Marion's piano was a little too refined. But people said Jimmy had never been better. Said one: "He's still got it . . . it's good . . . it's like...
...late as 2 a.m., the Pope rises from his desk and goes back to the chapel to complete the reading of his Breviary and to say evening prayers. The long day is almost over. The papal bed is large but very plain, with a black iron head and brass knobs. Several of his predecessors used the bed and Pius XI died on it. There, for the next four hours or so, Eugenic Pacelli, Pope Pius XII, sleeps until the beginning...