Word: outfit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cambridge Civic Association, which opposed him for mayor, is strictly a businessman's outfit. Eddic feels it doesn't "care a hoot" for the little fellow who elects Sullivan. "They're like the local Republican party and I'm a Democrat." After being mayor less than a week, Sullivan announced his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for Governor's Council. He's lost only one election in his life: running for County Clerk of Courts on the Democratic ticket in 1952, he was defeated in the GOP landslide. "But it took Ike to beat me," he beamed...
Outsiders can see why we worship Curtice. He is successful. He heads the outfit that did more trumpeting, and gorged the style-frantic buyer with more overpowered automobiles than can fit on U.S. roads today...
...best combination of plans for the least money. For example, the Air Force's General Curtis LeMay has made his Strategic Air Command cost-conscious right down to squadron level. A squadron commander who performs his missions and keeps his costs down is usually running a superior outfit because he has found ways to cut the number of accidents, keep crews healthy, and reduce the time lost in overhaul. A good budgeteer gets his final test when he looks back over his year's estimates to see what kind of planner he really turned...
...with a series by George Wright, put out by newly formed High Fidelity Recordings, Inc. On the serious side there are Columbia's fast-selling church-organ recordings with E. Power Biggs, and Decca has completed a major release of Bach by German Organist Helmut Walcha. But one outfit, Westminster, which made its reputation with fine sound, did not release a pipe-organ disk until last week...
...COKE FLAVORS may be in the works. Coca-Cola President William E. Robinson concedes that the world's biggest soft-drink company is a one-product outfit "in a sea of multiproduct enterprises," and that his chemists are tinkering with other flavors. While 1955 sales topped all records, with profits of $28 million, Coke's rate of gain in the booming home market was less than half the industry's overall increase...