Word: equipped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wonderful and terrible world of radioactivity that lay beyond. At Washington's Smithsonian Institution, itself only 46 years old, a 23-year-old instrument maker named Andrew Kramer applied for a job. Secretary Samuel P. Langley hired him on trial, that October day in 1892, to equip his astrophysical observatory. Last week, the 30-day trial having strung out to 61 years, Andrew Kramer, 84, resigned his post. He had served the U.S. Government longer than any employee in history...
...President has yet to fill in a few blanks. The Truman Administration's plan to build the Air Force to 143 wings was not-as Eisenhower implied-a program which was to be ready for one critical year and then done with. It was a program to equip the U.S. with air weapons for the jet age, to be ready...
Warner Bros, allowed him to equip and run a semi-pro team at Warner's expense. He once owned 25% of the Kansas City Blues, and considered buying the Brooklyn Dodgers in the '30s. His son, Joe L., is president of the New Orleans Pelicans of the Southern Association...
...occasions) feels it necessary to maintain a certain sartorial splendor. The Prophet wears topaz and garnet rings, a $17,000 diamond bracelet, and says he had 400 suits the last time he counted them. Nevertheless, since June 1949, two of his female followers have burned with a desire to equip him with more truly Universal raiment...
...Equip the Chinese Nationalist air force with jet fighter-bombers, probably F-84 Thunderjets...