Word: brassed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Those OBs who returned from the war, where they served in all theaters and earned their share of awards and rank (plenty of brass, including one lieutenant colonel), have gone on to jobs in TIME more suitable to their maturity and experience. Their postwar replacements have been largely veterans, too: combat infantrymen, Navy fighter pilots, an Army Air Forces Captain who had his own squadron in the Pacific, and a sprinkling of durable Marines...
...last week Maxim's was back in business. Mahogany, glass and brass glistened as of old. Albert was on hand to welcome the bejeweled and tail-coated guests: Princess Faiza of Egypt, Couturier Jacques Fath, Cartoonist Roger Wild, Mlle. Constantinesco, Fred McEvoy, Mme. Audemars and a safari of minor movie officials, businessmen and actresses. Gallantly, the sprinkle of oldtimers and pleasure's eager neophytes strove to revive the tradition of flaunting frivolity. But something more was missing than Gérard, who had retired to a sumptuous château near Biarritz which he had bought with tips...
Beer gardens were going full swing; here & there a brass band blared out the Blue Danube. G.I.s and Germans jammed merry-go-rounds and snap-the-whips at the Theresien-Platz, theaters and the opera in Prinzregenten-Strasse. As throughout Germany, excellent performances were played to jampacked audiences in roofless theaters. U.S. plays were a fad. Thornton Wilder's fantasy, The Skin of Our Teeth, (TIME, Nov. 30, 1942), was playing to full houses in Munich (as in London). Even Munich's Schaubuden, satirical little theaters like Am Platzl, whose stock in trade is poking fun at politicians...
There, this week, amid the old leather and the bright brass, the biggest deal in aviation history was being completed; out of that roc's-egg deal would hatch the biggest aviation company in the world. Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corp., controlled by Aviation Corp. (AVCO), was being merged with Lockheed Aircraft Corp...
...Hand. After years of mismanagement, AVCO was so close to death it was hardly breathing. Nevertheless, there were plenty who wanted a chance at the carcass. Errett Lobban Cord, a brass young auto salesman who had skyrocketed up in the golden '20s,-and put out a slinky car bearing his name-controlled AVCO. But to a cunning infighter like V.E., with the well-heeled Schroders again in his corner, it was the work of only a few months to knock out Cord* and take over the company in August...