Word: brassed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wilson" is narratively almost as historically correct as the movies could make it. Everything is there: the brass bands booming down the aisles in a "Win with Wilson" rally; the tremendous voice of William Jennings Bryan at the 1916 Democratic convention to a background of "Onward Christian Soldiers"; the swelling enthusiasm of the American people for the first world...
...Brass Hats, Brass Band. When he and his wife reached the airport last week they got a surprise. "The Brass"-every general in Washington-was on hand, 150 strong. A military band struck up Happy Birthday to You. As the Stimsons walked to the plane, the generals snapped to attention, saluted more smartly than generals usually do. The onetime artillery officer tried to return the salute. But he was misty-eyed as he looked back and called out, "Goodbye...
Furthermore, said he, there is now no demand for all the aluminum the nation can make, small chance of finding a market so long as Alcoa occupies its present dominating position. Businessmen, said he, will not switch from brass and steel to aluminum and "risk being at the mercy of a monopoly." His solution: break up Alcoa and integrate the DPC plants with the several new companies as well as with the two other wartime aluminum producers. Reynolds Metals and Olin Industries. Tom Clark figured that this would bring lower prices, and a market big enough...
...week found that it had stood up remarkably well. Some 400 incendiaries had gutted the south wing, burning out 150 bedrooms. Also destroyed was the Imperial's fancy Peacock Hall. The rest of the building was rubble-littered and damaged but usable, and already put to housing U.S. brass hats. Outside, red and white lilies bloomed in the pool...
...Price of Butter. Beneath his old-fashioned journalist's prose, readers could trace the change in U.S. attitude toward Europe-a change from Sunday feature stories (with an undertone of the comic strip) to solid, informed reporting about such brass tacks as the EAM in Greece and the price of butter in Britain...