Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...when he accomplishes his proposed removal of obnoxious taxes on foreign trade and foreign capital, the holding of "fair elections," and provisions for a clean government, he will already have outstripped his model. By strict adherence to it, he can do no more than develop tariff battles, intervention policies, brass-knuckled good-will trips, Smith-Vare disbarments, and an oil scandal...
...Brass. Directors of the Rome Brass and Copper Company approved a merger with six other companies, the new combination to be known as the General Brass Corporation and to control about 20% of U. S. production of brass and copper...
...begin with, his name was not even the U. S. Grant of fame and fancy, but Hiram Ulysses Grant-the initials proudly etched in brass tacks on the trunk he was to take on his unwilling way to West Point. Suspecting that fellow cadets would guy him for initials H. U. G., he plucked out the tacks, signed himself reversely Ulysses Hiram. But the registrar had him down as Ulysses Simpson Grant (an absent-minded senator had assumed the mother's maiden name) and refused him admittance without authorization from Washington. Ulysses, characteristically impatient of government red tape, made...
...Melodrama. In a stovepipe hat, and suiting of extreme flare, a jovial peddler startled New England villages out of their mid-century placidity to gape at a wagon resplendent with paint and varnish and polished brass, four white horses jingling the harness. Gilded letters announced "JAMES FISK JR. Jobber in Silks, Shawls, Dress Goods, Jewelry, Silver Ware, and Yankee Notions...
William Hastings Bassett, 60, led the research into the microstructure of copper and its alloys. And from this came dependable, non-corrosive water and steam pipes, boiler tubes to the profit of the American Brass Co., whose technical superintendent...