Word: brassed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Most sophisticated and euphonious of the Fahnestock records are those from Bali, reproducing the gamelan (gong) orchestras of the Balinese temples. Balinese gongsters, whose instruments range in timbre from trumpetlike brass gongs to tinkly wooden ones, play complicated rondo-like pieces, entirely without notation; a player remembers his notes by silently reciting a long poem. The Balinese scales correspond roughly to the Western; one of them has notes named ding, dong, deng, dung, dang. The Dutch Governor of Bali discovered a scale not previously identified, and the Fahnestocks recorded it in the singsong of an eight-year-old boy reciting...
Hertz's intentions, not his background, worry the Army. Two fears: 1) that he will yank MTD away from the Army, make it an independent bureau; 2) that he will work too fast, redden the face of many a poky brass hat. As aides, Hertz will use businessmen, not Army officers...
Alcoa's new plants will relieve but not end the aluminum shortage. Still uncontracted for is the rest of the expansion program announced by OPM shortly after the Senate investigation: four plants aggregating 260,000,000 lb. capacity to be operated by Reynolds, Bohn Aluminum & Brass, Union Carbide & Carbon, Olin Corp. Present capacity plus the new Alcoa expansions totals 1,200,000,000 lb. a year. Estimated Army, Navy, Lend-Lease and "essential" civilian requirements...
...first meeting Mr. Churchill boarded the Augusta, moving jauntily in his cocky walk, a long, specially made cigar crunched in his teeth. He wore his Trinity House uniform of dark blue, the effect of its eight brass buttons slightly marred by the grey marks where he had hastily brushed away the little mound of silver grey cigar ash that collects on his stomach as he sits slouched down.* His zippered ankle-high shoes were half unzipped. He handed a letter to Franklin Roosevelt, said: "I have the honor, Mr. President, to hand you a letter from His Majesty the King...
...reason why most of the 185,000 U.S. manufacturers are without defense orders is that owners lack the ingenuity and brass to get them. Some got bone chills in a prime contractor's waiting room, some got the Washington run-around,* most never even tried. A few have been burned by phony Washington go-betweens. A few have resorted to real go-betweens (nominally "employes," for legal reasons) and got contracts at the price of large commissions...