Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...deliberate selfishness that results in the unreasonable attempts of business to squeeze the consumer in a time of prosperity. The businessman, like the worker, knows that we live in a pendulum economy, where the inevitability of the next depression is as sure as the swing of the brass rod in the grandfather's clock. The businessman's defense is to make money in the sunshine, enough at least to oil his idle machinery in the dead days at the bottom of the cycle. The result is the increasing trend toward consolidation and away from the dispersion of ownership that, theoretically...
...with only 6%.) Was that really enough to control Central's 10,743 miles of tracks, its 119,208 employes, its 139,278 locomotives and cars? Well, if the Central wanted to prove that it wasn't, everyone was sure that there would be the roughest, toughest, brass-knuckledest fight since the throat-cutting days of Robber Barons Fisk, Gould and old Commodore Vanderbilt...
What new-broomer Claxton had to say dispelled the cloud of rumors that had fogged the services since they were integrated* (TIME, Dec. 23). It had set brass hats to jittering (none would be dropped under Claxton's plan), had lowered morale in the ranks. The prime purpose of the new plan, said Brooke Claxton, was "to keep our defense establishment sufficiently flexible so it would fit into any plan of defense or any form of disarmament. . . ." It would also fit in with plans to standardize weapons with the U.S. and Britain...
...track down the missing wife of her publisher-boss (Leon Ames). The lady of the title never appears in the film because she is dead at the bottom of a lake. Before Montgomery finally catches up with the killer-and with love-he has bulled his way through brass knuckles, a moldy jail, various sinister strangers, venal policemen, five homicides...
...wretched, sick and snarling little man. But he had the voice of a brass trumpet blaring venom and racism. "I call upon every red-blooded white man to use any means to keep the nigger away from the polls," he had screamed. He had a name that sounded like the chugging of a bullfrog: Bilbo...