Word: brass
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Memphis, once the toughest town along the Mississippi, there were no prostitutes, gamblers, policy games or gunmen. Crump had simply banished them. Beale Street Negroes could damage each other only by exercising some ingenuity. Crump's cops shook them down nightly for pistols, Arkansas toothpicks,* clubs, brass knucks, razors and ice picks. There was virtually no grafting-Crump forbade it. Officials who took money for themselves (as opposed to accepting contributions from liquor stores, business houses, jukebox and pinball operators for the Crump machine) were prosecuted...
Double Insurance. The office is a pleasant, airy room with polished brass desk ornaments, a gilded telephone, and a view of green Arkansas forests across the big river. It is not only a political nerve center but headquarters for one of the South's largest insurance and mortgage loan businesses. In 22 years, E. H. Crump & Co. has experienced a phenomenal growth; many a Memphis business man understandably believes that insurance with Crump has a double value. Crump's 54 years in Memphis have yielded him not only power, but wealth-cotton land in Mississippi, a fine brick...
...they pulled into Berlin's suburban Wannsee station at one o'clock the next morning, the grim sights dimmed in the excitement of arrival. A brass band, on weary stand-by for five hours, blared out There'll Be Some Changes Made. Flash bulbs popped...
...road. From London, where it had been a one-ring circus, it was transferred to Bad Nauheim. Along the roads leading to the Hessian spa were signs in the shaving-cream tradition: "Five miles to Lichfield trials," "Four miles. . . ," etc. In the streets, there was more glittering brass than could be found anywhere outside the Pentagon...
...Holland's dairy herds and grain for Holland's bread. The sandy flats along the North Sea are ablaze again with tulips and hyacinth and narcissus. Broken windows are neatly patched, the cities' rubble cleaned up. Everywhere men are painting doors and balconies and polishing the brass door knobs. On shattered, flooded Walcheren Island, thrifty Hollanders are rooting up German antiglider traps to use for kindling, and to brace the rebuilt dikes. Holland again looks almost as neat and orderly as a Pieter de Hooch interior...