Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Brass in the Laundry. Just after 8 p.m. on Tuesday, the two Constellations put down on an icy runway at a little-used field outside Seoul. Only a bird colonel was on hand for the reception: G-2 had learned that 135 Communist agents had recently slipped into Seoul, feared that a reception by high brass might be a tipoff to Ike's arrival. Ike, bundled in an overcoat, climbed into a sedan and the convoy rolled quietly into Seoul through the windy, subfreezing (18°) night. When his car pulled up at Eighth Army headquarters, U.N. Commander Mark...
...bring the city closer to its festival, top brass in labor, education and religion got busy and sent out 60 separate choruses to give free downtown concerts as advance publicity. Pittsburgh's Mayor David L. Lawrence was pleased: "This is all part of the city's continuing renaissance...
...Steel's top brass drove out from Pittsburgh last week to the company's most famous plant, Homestead. It is the plant that Andrew Carnegie once owned, and it was the keystone of the great 1901 merger on which U.S. Steel was built. Now, half a century later, Chairman-President Ben Fairless and his aides came to witness another milestone: the pouring of Big Steel's one billionth ton of metal. Never before in world history had one company made as much; it was twice as much as all the mills in Russia had ever made...
...Promoter. A sprightly, British-made spoof, with Alec Guinness playing a droll fellow who gets ahead in the world through sheer brass (TIME...
First to Go. In Portland, Me., Rookie Fireman Lawrence Hasson heard his first alarm, raced for the brass pole, slid down to the first floor, broke bones in both feet...