Word: outfit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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First stop was the Weather Bureau in Washington, where Rossby got an unofficial job. The bureau was already an elderly outfit (founded in 1870) and valiantly impervious to new ideas, especially when presented by a young Swedish missionary so full of bounce that he could hardly stay on the floor. Rossby left the bureau hurriedly in 1927 after making an unauthorized weather forecast (a good one) for Lindbergh's Mexico flight...
Closing In. Silberstein, who likes to put on a coal miner's outfit when he visits Penn-Texas mining properties, is banking on this discontent to pay off at Fairbanks, Morse's next annual meeting, in March. At the last meeting he won four seats on the eleven-man board, with his supporters voted 431,492 shares to management's 836,546. The margin is much closer now. Said Silberstein last week: "I am confident that we and the stockholders opposed to present management now have control of Fairbanks, Morse...
Last year's freshman outfit, now the mainstay of the varsity team, lost only one match in last year's contest, while the 1956-'57 version of the JV, much the same as last year's, took five of eight matches...
...Ideal Toy Co.'s "Revlon Doll" ($11.95 to $25) is a fully-developed young siren (proportioned to 34-23-34) whose outfit includes nylon stockings, earrings, a bra. The doll is expected to be Ideal's biggest seller since the "Shirley Temple" doll of 20 years...
...Marine Corps has always been a top-notch outfit. How can it possibly keep outstanding men when it treats its families and marines so shabbily? Am I to believe that all the Army, Navy and Air Force in the Far East is rendered useless because some have their families with them...