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...Brass. Directors of the Rome Brass and Copper Company approved a merger with six other companies, the new combination to be known as the General Brass Corporation and to control about 20% of U. S. production of brass and copper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Mergers: Dec. 10, 1928 | 12/10/1928 | See Source »

...Melodrama. In a stovepipe hat, and suiting of extreme flare, a jovial peddler startled New England villages out of their mid-century placidity to gape at a wagon resplendent with paint and varnish and polished brass, four white horses jingling the harness. Gilded letters announced "JAMES FISK JR. Jobber in Silks, Shawls, Dress Goods, Jewelry, Silver Ware, and Yankee Notions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Another Black Bag | 12/3/1928 | See Source »

William Hastings Bassett, 60, led the research into the microstructure of copper and its alloys. And from this came dependable, non-corrosive water and steam pipes, boiler tubes to the profit of the American Brass Co., whose technical superintendent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Fifth Estate | 11/26/1928 | See Source »

...summer abroad, Lewis has more than his former dose of pomposity. But be that as it may, his music is A1. If you like a good slow beat, suddenly broken up by Tiger Rag or such. Ted Lewis is the man to give it to you. Emphasis on the brass has always been uppermost, both in the band and in Lewis' personality...

Author: By J. H. S., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 11/15/1928 | See Source »

...nerve, the brass, of a Republican to walk down on Long Island and talk about what their party is doing to give the people parks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Smithisms | 11/12/1928 | See Source »

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