Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Gallup's findings hit the Pentagon, they created one of the greatest flaps since the Battle of the Bulge. Navy brass was furious, promptly suspected that the Air Force was responsible for the poll and story. Unless Washington has changed, the part of the service that will expand quickest is Navy public relations...
Nevertheless, the company was cramped for space to build longer runways for jets at the Bethpage plant. Owners of new houses, who had crowded as close as 50 ft. to Grumman's runways, began objecting to the roar of jets. Navy brass was all for moving Grumman to a less crowded and less vulnerable inland site. But Swirbul persuaded the Navy to build Grumman a $22 million plant and test field on 4,500 acres 50 miles farther out on Long Island. There Grumman may build a successor to its Cougar, a new FioF jet fighter, now being tested...
...days of rioting, some 3,000 Arabs were rounded up in the same union hall where the trouble began. As the police forced them into a sullen huddle, the hall was filled with the clatter of weapons-clasp knives, ice picks, scimitars, poniards, shoehorns, hatchets, fire tongs and brass knuckles-falling to the floor. Net score after two troubled days: 1,000 arrests; 100 or more Arab dead, 60 known wounded and probably many more cared for by their people; five European civilians dead and 13 wounded; three soldiers dead and 43 wounded. "Those who bear the responsibility for these...
Most of the brass were the kind whom Bonn promises to bar from the new German army, or would be vetoed by other nations under the terms of the European Army Treaty. Typical was Luftwaffe Colonel Hans Ulrich Rudel, the one-legged Panzerknacker (tankbuster) whom Göring improbably credited with one Russian battleship, two heavy cruisers and 532 Red army tanks in 2,500 sorties. Decorated with the Wehrmacht's highest combat honors,* Rudel escaped to Buenos Aires at war's end, sold his memoirs (Nevertheless . . .) and, despite his wooden leg, bested all comers as tennis player...
...Promoter. A sprightly, British-made spoof, with Alec Guinness playing a droll fellow who gets ahead in the world through sheer brass (TIME...