Word: brassed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prairies, the Winnipeg Free Press roared that "brass hats" who considered an Alaska invasion an impossibility "ought to have their heads examined." In Toronto, Alex Walker, president of the Canadian Legion, which has been leading recent demands for all-out aid to Britain, began to speak of "grave, personal danger [which] confronts every man, woman and child in all our provinces bordering on the two oceans...
...Army took a big piece of brass out of its hat last week. President Roosevelt ordered the most sweeping reorganization in the War Department's history. An organization hitherto as strangely assembled as Topsy's hair was streamlined to bullet-shape. Out the window went bottlenecks, bureaus and bric-a-brac -and the fusty old general staff setup. All old sections were packed into three new ones: Air Force, Ground Force and Supply. On top remains Chief of Staff George C. Marshall...
...American people would be given a jolt far worse than Pearl Harbor if they knew the manner in which materials to go into airplanes have been sidetracked and scuttled by brass hats in Washington. . . . Aircraft production is expected to fall off within six months unless the outmoded priority system is remedied...
...meantime Nelson continued to knock the frosting off the U.S. economy. He stopped production of Christmas-tree and advertising-light bulbs, of brass eyelets for shoes, ordered a 50% cut in tin cans for beer, coffee, tobacco, oil, dog food. As its first move into international problems, WPB allocated 4% of rayon production to Latin America...
...soft light on the dirty sidewalk, the modest little brass sign--"The Crimson." Vag turned in at the door, with a mental prayer that none of the editors would forget to be there. They hadn't: Cleveland, Brookline, Wisconsin, Illinois, Kentucky, Cincinnati and New York--what a joyous progeny of Uncle Sam! And there, hanging from the chandelier grinning inanely was Inchball, good old Feather stone cough, who never failed to wing his way from Shangri-La for this sad, glad occasion. Vag felt a sudden exuberance, even before the punch was made; he was amoosed though confoosed...