Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heartily approve of your selection. I criticize, however, the picture you ran of him sitting at his desk, next to a large brass cuspidor. If Mr. Curtice likes to indulge in a quiet chew of plug tobacco, it is all right with me, but the majority of people consider this a filthy habit...
...Curtice, a tidy cigarette smoker, uses the brass goboon as a floor ashtray...
Hard Drinking. Saloonkeeper Bilgray earned his fame by making the Tropic into a serious drinkingman's bar-an honest saloon that scorned chromium, jukeboxes and B-girls. Its sights and sounds were shiny brass, dark wood panels, man-to-man talk and softly whirling fans...
...hitch wages to the cost-of-living index, first to link wage increases to productivity. Last year G.M. lost an average (nationwide) of only three minutes in labor troubles for each wage earner. Today's happier version of the sitdown in Flint occurs when local U.A.W. leaders, G.M. brass and civic bigwigs sit down at a luncheon meeting to plot the Community Chest campaign...
...sound, however, was effectively muffled for some time in the corridors of military bureaucracy; and the man who had so inconsiderately upset the steel-plated applecart of 19th century warfare, Brigadier General William Mitchell of the Army Air Service, soon found himself a chairborne colonel in Texas. The brass, as one recalcitrant officer put it, had decided "to ignore the airplane ... in the hope that if nobody mentioned it, it would go away...