Word: outfit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Army regulars will quickly admit that they stay in 'the Army because they couldn't make a living on the outside. The Air Force took the only administrative talent in the military and got out while the going was good. The army is just an eight-ball outfit...
Success has a universal touch that an army of market researchers could not improve on. Its humor dashes unpuffing from varnished vulgarity (Jayne is the "titular head" of a fictitious film outfit) to national institutions (Groucho Marx materializes as Jayne's first love). Actress Mansfield, a comic genius whenever she plays Jayne Mansfield, slithers into the skintight role of Jayne Mansfield. If the fun bogs slightly and if some of the gags have family reunions in the end, Director Tashlin may be forgiven for too-muching his good thing. Hollywood has every right to try beating its rival...
Distress Call. Snia Viscosa has been a one-man outfit almost since the day Marinotti appeared in Milan 28 years ago. Born on the Venetian plains, he had already won a reputation as a hustling textile salesman, first working for Italy's Cascagni Seta mills, where, at 23, he was manager of all the company's mills in Czarist Russia, later as boss of his own worldwide trade corporation. In 1929 Marinotti got a distress call from Societá Nazionale Industria Applicazione Viscosa, onetime shipping company turned textile manufacturer. Snia Viscosa, overcapitalized and overinflated at the 1929 crash...
...writes with authentic familiarity about the men who opened the American West. When the dude reader is informed by the publisher that "there is something about a Colt .44 beside the typewriter that inspires me," or that Miss Johnson won a spur from that loose-lipped but hard-writing outfit called the Western Writers of America, Inc., he may well suspect that he is in for a good fat slice from the gun-smoked hams of cowboy fiction-Zane Grey, William MacLeod Raine, or Clarence E. (Hopalong Cassidy) Mulford...
...control of the Nippon Institute, chiefly through Murai. Then they set up a network of trading firms, all using the institute's reputation to drum up business. So far, police investigators have turned up 100 Communist-run companies operating on the same line as-Murai's outfit. All will be charged with embezzlement, but with card-holding "businessmen" clamming up in every case, police doubt that they can bring the Communist Party itself to court for bagging all the boodle...