Word: brasses
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After 3½ years in the Army, where he rose to the rank of captain, Baldrige went to work as a shop foreman in an ironworks, rising through the ranks to become president. He joined Scovill in 1962, and is credited with changing the company from a stodgy brass manufacturer with sales of $164 million to a conglomerate that now has sales of about $1 billion in goods ranging from appliances and building products to locks and zippers...
...days later, on November 9, she started work at the department in Lexington, where she logs two ten-hour days and two 14-hour nights every eight days. She answers both fire and ambulance calls, and sometimes manages to sleep in bunkrooms at the station. ("There really is a brass pole-the bell rings and you jump up and find your shoes, if it's the ambulance, or slide down in socks and get into big boots, if it's the truck...
Ever since the city fathers of Florence ordered up brass cannon and iron balls in 1326 to defend themselves against the city of Lucca, in the first recorded use of explosive-powered metal artillery, gunsmiths have been trying to perfect their weapons. Guns have improved over the centuries-in range, accuracy and deadliness-but their firepower has always depended on the rapid expansion of exploding gases down a tube, which pushes the bullet forward. The maximum speed such gases-and thus the gun's projectile too -can reach is severely constrained. None of the particles in the gases...
Perhaps lilies are more in order. "His life is on the line," said one U.A. executive of Cimino. "This is a tough town." Things may be tough for the U.A. brass too. The company has not had a single solid hit this year to erase the red ink from such bombs as Carny, Roadie and Those Lips, Those Eyes. Woody Allen's Stardust Memories, which cost $20 million, is a major box office disappointment. The studio's Christmas films were to have been Martin Scorsese's Raging Bull (which opened two weeks ago to strong critical...
...comes to bizarre ways of coming to grips with a shortage of profitably infected molars, nothing can top California. In addition to Dr. Schmidt, there is Dr. Terry Pratt of Alameda, who has taken an old bungalow and created a homey office complete with stained glass, eucalyptus-wood paneling, brass fixtures and white lace window curtains. Dr. Ronald Konopaski of San Francisco says that he has "tried to create an image similar to a beauty salon." The doctor's dental salon offers clients a rainbow-colored printed menu of services with fees. They can or der to taste - anything...