Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Attorney General Robert Kennedy's Department of Justice last week moved against the U.S. brass industry. In Hartford, Conn., a federal grand jury handed down indictments against eleven major brass producers and seven of their officers for conspiring to fix prices on pipe and tubing sold to the Tennessee Valley Authority and municipal governments...
...list of defendants read like a Who's Who of the industry. Named in the indictment were Anaconda American Brass, Phelps Dodge Copper Products, Chase Brass & Copper, Revere Copper & Brass, the Cerro Corp.. Bridgeport Brass, the Scovill Manufacturing Co., Calumet & Hecla. Mueller Brass, Triangle Conduit & Cable and the Progress Manufacturing...
...robed Shinto priests performed intricate purification ceremonies, a potbellied turboprop transport rolled out of a hangar at Nagoya's Komaki Airport, taxied down a runway and roared aloft. An hour later, when the plane set back down at Komaki, a waiting throng of businessmen and Japanese air force brass broke into exultant banzais. The YS 11, first Japanese-designed commercial transport to be built since World War II, had completed its maiden flight...
...over. The styling of its '625, which Chrysler called "European," was so out of pace with public taste that Chrysler's share of the market is now only 9.1,% against 18% five years ago. But last week, showing off its new models to newsmen, Chrysler's brass summoned up a heady optimism for '63. Reason: the fast turn-around given to the company's models and management by new President Lynn Alfred Townsend, 43, a tall, budget-watching accountant...
...sketch. But, because only members of a family have limitless interest in family idiosyncrasies, the sum of Before My Time is interminably less than its parts. With skill at re-creating the rich past, Tucci has hand-tooled a glittering vintage automobile. It is a perfect replica, with genuine brass driving lamps and a burled walnut dashboard. All it lacks is a motor...