Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Perhaps one of the greatest faults in "Acres and Pains" is Mr. Perelman's singularly bad choice of an illustrator. R. Osborn appears much more at home snarling at the backside of an Army Brass Hat than attempting to convey the tone of Perelman's brand of humor. The vicious, Stieg-like cartoons that made his fame in "War Is No Damned Good" have no place beside Perelman's cutting, though entireless harmless, wit. Some of the drawings are excellent, particularly a picture of two bloodthirsty children, but for the largest part they misfire and confuse the effect. These badly...
...small buildings, seldom larger than a half inch cube, are carved from molded blocks of savogran, a kind of plaster of Parts which dries quickly and firmly. Spires and towers are of brass, and fences are of copper wire...
...Advance S.O.S. Headquarters in Valognes, France, August 1944, Lee had to dine off gold-edged china and gold-encrusted goblets. Why criticize him now for what he and the brass did all through the war ? Once a star goes on an officer's shoulders they expect to be treated as a deity. ... It will all be "whitewashed" as usual. . . . That's the Army...
...Bureau mounts its diamonds (which must be more colorless and flawless than good grade jewelry stones) between two small brass contacts. One contact is charged with 1,000 volts of electricity. When an alpha, beta or gamma ray hits the diamond, it knocks an electron off one of the carbon atoms of which the diamond is composed. Propelled by the pressure of the 1,000 volts, the electron darts along one of the straight channels which run between the atoms of a diamond crystal. This motion sets up an electrical pulsation that can be detected easily by various standard instruments...
Exhumed. Chicago Brass Manufacturer Marshall Merkes announced that he had bought the remaining inventory and blueprints of the fabulous Duesenberg automobile from the Auburn Cord Duesenberg Co. Merkes hired the late Fred Duesenberg's younger brother August to design him an eight-cylinder engine with an injection-type fuel feed for a new custom-made Duesenberg. The price: "No less than $25,000, probably more...