Word: brass
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...train, with no fancy name. To the engineers and switchmen, it was No. 7452-C. The men on board dubbed it the "Home Again Special," and wrote the new name in chalk on the sides of the old Pullman cars. In another war there might have been brass bands at every stop. But in this pageantry-less, slogan-less war, the train just rumbled on toward New York, through the big towns and the whistle-stops...
...were up early, shining their shoes, polishing their buttons. As the train pulled into Baltimore at 6:30 a.m. there was a shout: "Bring on the brass band." There was no band nor any people, and the homecoming marines got off and walked through the silent station...
...control of Stars & Stripes was shifted from the Army Service Forces to the politically wary Bureau of Public Relations. G.I. staffmen, already alarmed by the ouster of Colonel White for attempting to bring his G.I. readers a full budget of home-front news (TIME, July 17). wondered if the brass hats were taking over in force. But they could be sure of one thing: Captain Neville would fight his hardest to keep the Army paper free of brass-hat caution, full of G.I. flavor...
Paul Whiteman signed up the cherubic, long-lashed song-plugger when he was 18 ("I looked like an unfrocked altar boy"). In between his songs with the band, Downey sat with the brass section and pretended to blow a horn, although he could not play a note. His salary boiled up to $350 a week...
...fortnight for Japanese brass hats...