Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...show the variety of its production, Vickers' brass like to describe a trip to an imaginary city: the visitor arrives aboard a huge ocean liner built by Vickers' shipbuilding division, steams into a harbor past Vickers fishing vessels and ties up at a pier near a Vickers drydock. Boarding a Vickers-made bus (now running in cities from Cairo to Montevideo), the sightseer travels past rows of cement kilns made by Vickers, past Vickers oil-storage tanks, Vickers rubber plants, steel mills, printing plants, bottling plants, all equipped with Vickers machinery. He tours the suburbs on a Vickers...
Another Year, Perhaps? In Atlanta, the women's chamber of commerce decided to postpone Noise Abatement Week when it learned that its antilittering committee had already scheduled a parade, with ten brass bands, 125 marching units, a garbage truck and eight National Guard jets for low air cover...
Suddenly there is a waffling noise in her chimney, the sound of tearing cloth, and a rain of shiny brass buttons into the fireplace. Then, with a loud plop, a red-clad figure appears on the hearth in a cloud of ash-dust, coughing violently. And Virginia thinks the recognizes...
Stretched out on his plain brass bed, retching in pain, the Pope seemed first to be suffering an appendicitis attack; then, as evidence of intestinal hemorrhage appeared, the doctors feared a perforated ulcer. X rays were ordered. The sacrament of Extreme Unction was administered. Gradually the pain began to subside...
Behind a gold-painted locomotive, a trainload of G.M. brass rolled into Flint, Mich, last week to celebrate the production of G.M.'s 50 millionth car. While G.M. President Harlow Curtice looked on, a gold-plated Chevrolet rolled off the assembly line. At lavish luncheons in 52 hotels scattered through the U.S., and in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall, another 15,000 invited guests watched the festivities over the most extensive closed-circuit TV network ever rigged...