Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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True to election tradition, each member of Dwight Eisenhower's Cabinet last week turned in a letter of resignation so the President could have the customary chance to start his new term with some shiny new brass around him. Almost before the letters were in, Ike passed the word that he has taken a shine to the brass he has. He personally persuaded a reluctant George Humphrey, 66, to remain at his desk as Secretary of the Treasury. Commerce Secretary Sinclair Weeks, 63, restive and weary, was talked into staying put. Even Special Assistant on Disarmament Harold Stassen...
...delivery after the planned completion of the ship, and supplying industries were built up far from ports. East Germany has launched one 10,000-ton freighter at Warnemünde, now is producing other freighters at Wismar and Rostock, plus 500-ton fishing luggers and luxury yachts (for Communist brass and export) in shipyards at Stralsund and Wolgast on the blue Baltic. But East Germany's marine diesel engines are of prewar design, far too heavy and bulky to compete with the West's. Radio equipment is antiquated, automatic welding in its infancy, the use of plastics just...
...Question. To hold the hill meant shielding the Eighth Army's thin defense line. The brass decided that Pork Chop was worth the price. For three days and two nights, a succession of rifle companies of the U.S. 7th Division slogged into the meat-grinder to counter waves of Chinese reinforcements. Battling for Pork Chop's shattered trenches and bunkers, some 900 Americans and South Koreans were killed or wounded, along with 3,000 Chinese. In 48 hours some 85,000 U.S. artillery rounds, plus uncounted enemy shells, blasted Pork Chop's eroded slopes -a display...
...covering the Spanish civil war for the Detroit News. In World War II, as a major in the Army historical section, he went to the Pacific to cover the invasion of Makin Island in 1943. At first he used the conventional approach: copying high-level records, talking to the brass, touring the front. He learned little. Even on the battlefield, fable was rapidly substituted for fact...
Family Affair. Some insurgent stockholders are also fueling their campaign with charges of excessive salaries and nepotism indulged in by M-G-M brass. Says New York Judge Louis Goldstein, who says he represents more than 200,000 shares: "In 1955, Nicholas Schenck, then Loew's president, received $171,786 in salary and nontravel expenses; Charles Moscowitz, vice president and treasurer, received $156,429; Schary...