Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...third year to go overseas with the Yale Unit in the naval air force. In France he flew the lumbering British Handley Pages on some of the first night glide-bombing attacks, made a careful study of dive-bombing tactics which amazed his friends and delighted the Navy brass. The unit's historian summed up Lieut. Lovett in three words: "Observation, reflection, deduction-and there you were...
Died. James Watson Gerard, 84, topflight corporation lawyer, U.S. Ambassador to Germany during World War I (1913-17); of a bronchial ailment; in Southampton, N.Y. A conservative Democrat, he came, like Franklin D. Roosevelt, from a wealthy old New York family, pleased his countrymen by his brass-knuckled attitude toward Germany's haughty World War I diplomats. When one of them warned that 500,000 Germans in America would rise up if the U.S. entered the war, Gerard coldly replied that the U.S. had 500,000 lampposts from which to hang them. When the U.S. entered...
...good bet that nobody would be dragged before a "jury of twelve men and twelve women." But it was just as clear that in a fight with a man wearing brass knuckles, a glancing blow was worse than no blow...
...Brass & Bounce...
...Angeles machine shop which he started in 1913. Born in Latvia, Harvey had learned the machinist's trade in Germany before coming to the U.S. at 20. His shop prospered with World War I orders for parts for the Curtiss "Jenny," afterward, did a tidy business machining brass and aluminum parts. World War II's demand for aluminum plane parts spread his company over four small plants. At war's end, when the $8,000,000 Bohn Aluminum & Brass war plant at Torrance, Calif, became surplus, he snatched it up at a bargain, has since become...