Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Utah, which lay offshore. One of them, Chief Yeoman Ralph Everett Crawshaw, a quiet young man, was mail clerk on the Utah. Whether or not he exercised a sailor's prerogative and got drunk that gala day was a question which for 30 years was to bother Navy brass, four U.S. Presidents and seven sessions of Congress...
...drop such Hearstian acts as antivivisection campaigns, try to get a note of restraint into editorials. Young Bill has a tough job; the Hearst chain, long faltering, was saved mainly by the lush advertising of World War II and the ensuing boom, plus stringent economies. Most of the top brass is now 60 or over, and new blood is needed in the top command. In Hearst shops, the talk is that young Bill will want some changes made...
...past, scientists could observe these lively goings-on for only two or three minutes a year, when the sun was in total eclipse. Not until 1930, when French Astronomer Bernard Lyot built the first coronagraph, did anyone succeed in imitating the natural event. Astronomer Lyot put a small brass disk between the lenses of a simple telescope, cutting off direct sunlight and permitting him to focus the dim radiance of the corona and solar prominences upon a sheet of photographic film. It was a simple enough trick, but one that could not be carried off without superfine lenses, free...
...Fuhrer, Old Song. Kickoff for Berlin's program of pop, brass bands and long-winded propaganda was a giant "peace parade," escorted by heavily-armed young toughs of the East German People's Police. Garbed in their national costumes, 25,000 visiting Reds-including two Irishmen, ten Americans and one lonely New Zealander-joined with 100,000 young Germans in a cheering demonstration. In a welcoming speech, East German President Wilhelm Pieck brought to mind similar occasions under the Nazis, when he hailed "the great Fuhrer [Stalin] who gives the foremost example in the world fight...
...modest goal of 5,000 planes this year. Last week Mobilization Boss Charlie Wilson moved to crack the defense program's biggest lag (out of every defense dollar to be spent in the next year, 48? is earmarked for aircraft). He set up a board of top brass from civilian and Defense Department agencies with sweeping powers to rev up U.S. aircraft production...