Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...blowing brass bands, the lofty pomp and the great sweep of social events never succeeded in drowning out. nor even interrupting, the central purpose of Saud's visit: high-stakes diplomacy...
...felled by a whiff of gas. The way he saw things, Con Edison's refusal to support his claim for compensation, and the "perjury" of fellow employees who abetted the company, had made him forever dependent on the sisters, who worked respectively in a button factory and a brass mill...
...biggest and most rambunctious affiliate- Dave Beck's scandal-tainted, 1,400,000 member Teamsters. Two weeks ago, when the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations began a study of labor racketeering, it called in Teamster officers to testify on their use of union funds. The union brass, charging the subcommittee with a lack of jurisdiction, flatly refused to answer questions about their stewardship-e.g.: Had they used union funds to pay Dave Beck's personal bills? -and some of them took refuge behind the Fifth Amendment. Adding to Subcommittee Chairman John L. McClellan...
Typical of the kind of new product development that helps make this progress possible is Mallory 1000 metal, a unique development of Mallory powder metallurgy. Already providing required balance in the nose of guided missiles, Mallory 1000 is twice as dense as steel or brass and far stronger than lead . . . actually outdoes nature in packing concentrated weight into the smallest possible space. As the pendulum in self-winding wrist watches, the rotor in gyroscopic control mechanisms, counterweights in airplane ailerons, and in dozens of other applications . . . this unique, man-made metal is another example of the way Mallory prepares...
Barely twelve months ago Olin Mathieson Chemical Corp. announced plans for a $120 million aluminum plant at Buckhill Bottom, 20 miles from Wheeling, W. Va.; soon afterward it joined forces with Revere Copper & Brass to boost the ante to $304 million. In quick succession the Pennsylvania Railroad spent $4,000,000 building twelve miles of spur track to the plant site, and M. A. Hanna Coal Co. started work on a big new mine to provide coal for Ohio Power Co.'s expanding plant at Cresap, W. Va., which in turn contracted to supply power for the new aluminum works...