Word: brass
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Clerk Rowan phoned in the alarm. While he frantically roused the sleepers, flames and gas ballooned up the two elevator shafts and the two narrow stairways to the ventless roof. Stopped there, the seething mass backed up in search of outlets, shot down hallways with flamethrower force, began melting brass doorknobs, powdering plaster and licking at closed doors. Whenever a door was left open, death entered. At 3:50, when the 60-piece fire department started spindly ladders up along its scorching walls, the "fireproof," 33-year-old Winecoff, which, like most Atlanta hotels, has no outside fire escapes...
...exactly 7:55 the tattered U.S. flag fluttered slowly to the peak. Army brass-hats intoned the proper sentiments. Then down came the colors to half-mast. Last week, five years to the minute after the catastrophe of Pearl Harbor, the Army commemorated the day, with the same flag which had survived it. The Navy, which had suffered a great deal more, ignored the anniversary of the Japanese attack. Explained a spokesman: "We want to forget-not remember." *The ultimate arbiter is one Bertha K. Eastmond, a socially unknown, and determinedly anonymous woman in her 60s, who lives in seclusion...
Twenty-three hundred years after Plato, educators still debated whether the golden sons of brass and iron parents have a good chance to be raised to honor. After a year and a half of research, an investigating committee last week decided that they did not. To a conference of educators at Columbia's Teachers College, the University of Chicago's Stephen M. Corey, head of the committee, reported: "The assumption seems to have been that 'genius will out.' The committee believes this faith unjustified...
...Brass-Knuckle Talk. But no one, least of all U.S. businessmen, thought that the job the U.S. had set out to do was a small one. Talk of how to do it, like exports, was at an all-time high. In Manhattan alone there were over 40 speeches on foreign trade in the last fortnight. Probably the most brass-knuckled talk was that of William E. Knox, 45, world-minded president of Westinghouse Electric International Co. Said he to Manhattan exporters...
...Brass-Knuckle Facts. Thanks to the volume of U.S. exports, greatest in history, foreign trade was indeed getting towards the I.O.U. stage. Exports, up some 300% over prewar, are now at a rate of $10 billion yearly, while imports, though double prewar, are still lagging at $4.6 billions. This top-heavy unbalance has reduced gold and dollar reserves of foreign nations from $17 billion in 1944 to $6.4 as of last June. Warned Electric Bond & Share's board chairman, Curtis E. Calder in Knox-like tones: unless the U.S. drastically increases its overall imports, the "gap will be filled...