Word: brassed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russian Military Mission were made honorary members of the United Service Club, haven for brass hats...
Said Bevan acidly: "What stopped their return was that the Prime Minister thought about the matter romantically, while the brass hats advised him stupidly. ... In fact the Government is the only enemy the generals have so far been able to defeat...
...painful subject to thoughtful Britons is the brass hats' attitude toward the labor shortage. The brass hats wish in all circumstances to keep Britain's 4,000,000-man Army in the field. In spite of military experts, who insist that the power of a modern army lies in its mechanization plus a huge force of industry behind it, the brass hats have prevailed...
Metal shortages have already cut into an odd assortment of consumers' goods: zippers, outboard motors, dollar watches, bicycles, compacts. Home builders now have trouble getting pumps, electric motors, bathtubs, copper tubing, brass fittings, light fixtures. A good share of the extra dollars that U.S. consumers have to spend will go into bigger purchases of food (of which the U.S. has enough, ex cept for temporary shortages like toma toes and salmon, bought up by the Army and the British). More will go for "soft" consumers' goods like clothes (the U.S. has a 9,000,000-bale cotton surplus...
When Moss turned up at Dayton's McCook Field with his turbo in 1918, he met the traditional experience of all inventors: the "glassy eye," as he recalls, of skeptical industrialists and Army brass hats. He took them to the top of Pike's Peak, where a 350-h.p. Liberty motor gave only 230 h.p. in the thin air at 14,000 feet. When Moss cut in his supercharger, the motor roared away...