Word: brassed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tons of non-ferrous metals (aluminum, brass, other copper products), 16,600 tons of critical ferro-alloys...
...paint covers the walls; bare electric wiring runs up the corners and around the baseboards. Hopkins works at an ordinary-sized desk, reasonably new. The rest of the office furniture is also routine: a brown leather couch, on which Hopkins likes to stretch out when receiving visitors, several imitation brass ash trays, and some WPA paintings on the walls. His office staff consists of one secretary...
...Baldwin thought he knew where the blame lay: with the War Department, hamstrung by "conservatism and traditionalism. . . . There is no lack of American inventive genius, no lack of engineering skill, no lack of devotion and energy [among designers and technicians], but there is a superfluity of red tape [among brass hats]; there is overorganization and there is lack of clear, directive vision [with the War Department...
...been told France had suffered economically under German occupation. I saw fat horses drawing farm wagons, many with rubber tires. We went to the Ritz hotel . . . the big brass doorknobs and all the decorations were there...
...York Herald Tribune coldly took Tourist Crawford to task for his talk. "We used to have the American who applauded Mussolini because he ran trains on time. . . . Now we have Mr. Crawford . . . who believes France is a land of luxury because the Ritz Hotel. . . still has its big brass doorknobs. With this type of innocent abroad . . . there is not much that can be done...