Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Army & Navy brass hats, who had been nervously fingering their temporary wartime stars ever since V-J day, were feeling a little starchier last week. In the last-minute rush of closing, Congress had authorized a nearly 400% increase in the number of permanent generals and admirals. Since 1939 the Navy had rated only 86 permanent flag officers, the Army 71 generals. Under the new setup the Navy would have 195, the Army 184 and the new, autonomous Air Force...
...motives of the Brewster investigation got lost in a Scotch mist, while front pages bloomed with a mixture of cheesecake and pious duckings about "babes, booze, and brass." Then came the names...
Next day the union tried a novel picketing technique. Like many banks, the Brooklyn Trust's doors are adorned by brass handrails. Three women pickets-not bank employees-handcuffed themselves together and linked themselves as a human chain to the door rails, thus blocking the entrance. It took a patrolman with a hacksaw to cut the girls loose. At week's end, the bank said some 50 out of 800 employees were on strike and banking was going on as usual...
...exodus was no haphazard expedition. Advance parties of armed men went ahead to build and garrison forts, plant crops along the route, prepare the road. Wagon trains were spaced to conserve grazing land, and the flock was cheered at night by Captain Pitts's Brass Band, which had been converted en masse in England and had come to join the trek...
...Matter of Sentiment. In Los Angeles, a rummaging detective found a pair of brass knuckles in the home of Edna Franklin, had to accept her explanation that they were treasured family heirlooms handed down by her dear departed mother...