Word: brass
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bald, 50-year-old Bob Lovett, World War I veteran, Wall Street businessman, and articulate advocate of air power, had also served five years. He reorganized and even achieved partial autonomy for the A.A.F. He has been the Air Forces' most successful salesman, both in brass-hat circles and Congressional committee rooms, and a crack administrater of A.A.F. into the bargain...
Cried General of the Army "Hap" Arnold: "This proposed amendment will, in my considered opinion, have the effect of destroying the Army Air Forces in the most critical period of its history." The Navy was equally concerned that morale in the fleet air arm would be shattered. Top-brass airmen frankly regarded flight pay as "one of the best pieces of bait we have on the hook for young flyers...
...spite of everything the war taught -the devastation of Germany and Japan by the Air Forces and the delivery of the atom bombs-the Navy's high brass still talks of air power as an inseparable adjunct of sea power-comparable, say, to the submarine force. Some admirals still think of tactical aircraft as a weapon something like a 16-in. naval gun. And on that stubborn basis they will fight to the end any threat to the old, traditional prestige of the surface ship. They were fighting desperately last week, somewhere near their one-yard line...
Bill Mauldin, ex-G.I. cartoonist who once tangled with General George S. Patton Jr. over brass-hat censorship (TIME, March 26), was the man 29 G.I.s in Italy wanted in Congress. In a letter to Stars & Stripes they nominated him as "the only person capable of opposing" General Patton, who they heard might...
...changed hands three times. But in its huge basement Grill Room, the Royal Canadians were opening their 16th winter at the same stand. In the years between, many a band had risen and fallen: bands with no violins, and bands with 15 of them; bands with plenty of brass, and at least one with none; bands that featured Rippling Rhythm, bands that played Champagne Music. For about the 7,500th time, Guy Lombardo's band slow-dragged I Love You Truly...