Word: brassed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...easier on it; in fact they will go for it. Many cheap baubles have lovely sides in certain lights: this one shines irresistibly in such scenes as a brawl in a Coney harem. Here all the succulent paraphernalia of 1905 eroticism get heaved about in fearful confusion-carved brass hookahs caught in ripped gauze, brocaded draperies from the mysterious East, feathers and chandeliers, pillows of plush and satin, even one or two preserved starfish...
...automatic weapons such as this one, ordnance planners long ago foresaw that the armed forces might shoot their way right through the available supply of copper, the key metal in brass cartridge cases. They were right. By this week some 70 companies were making cartridge cases of steel in all sizes...
...Brass was ideal for cartridge and shell cases: it was easily worked, springy and slick and handled well in the gun. In World War I there was no necessity to mother a substitute. But World War II fire power is dizzily high; the U.S. produced more machine guns in one month of this year than in all of the last war. In February alone almost two million high-explosive shells were turned out, and almost one and a quarter billion cartridges. Brass could not keep up; one big cartridge plant (now changed over to steel) was slowed almost...
Some of these operations are conventional. What makes steel cases metallurgically spectacular is the new (and still secret) application of known processes which permits extremely deep draws to close tolerances and gives steel the desirable properties of brass. All the hard way from the open hearth to the finished cartridge, U.S. industry has learned things about steel it never knew before...
Gradually he became aware of a brass band playing faintly in the distance. He could not make out the tune. Then, in the corridor outside his apartment, he heard a muffled clomping. Opening the door, he beheld a large and handsome White Horse. "Yes?" said the Senator. The White Horse made no reply. Instead, drawing a watch from its vest pocket, it muttered, "Oh dear, I shall be too late," stepped into an open elevator shaft, and disappeared. Unhesitatingly the Senator followed...