Word: outfit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Overconfidence--not unnatural after Saturday's big win over Cornell--and a fast-breaking Jumbo outfit that might catch fire this evening could make the pre-game records insignificant. In addition, Tufts has the advantage in height...
Iraq's young new army, trained by the British, has between 40,000 and 50.000 men organized into two divisions, with a third in the process of formation. Iran's 150,000-man army, for years a tatterdemalion outfit rotted by Communist infiltration and paralyzed by low morale, has been spruced up under the guidance of a U.S. military assistance group headed by Major General Robert McClure. currently consists of twelve passable divisions, three of them armored...
...enterprising hero of Cash McCall finds himself in just the situation he describes, while picking up a small, family-owned plastics outfit called Suffolk Moulding. Suffolk is put on the auction block in a panic by its President Grant Austen when he fears he is about to lose a vital contract. Cash offers Austen $2,000,000, and a handshake clinches the deal. Cash is soon clinching with Grant's lissome daughter Lory in a losing proxy fight for his heart...
General Sun had got off lightly. According to the evidence made public last week, he had built up the sort of outfit to back his personal ambitions. A similar undertaking within the U.S. Army would have brought instant dismissal to any general so involved. In entrusting liaison with his organization to a Major Kuo Ting-liang, who has since confessed to being a secret Communist, Sun played at best a dupe's role. In the commission's view, Sun "could not have been entirely ignorant of the conspiracy" planned by the major and broken up last summer...
...secretive as ever. He still operates like a cross between a phantom and a whirlwind, dropping out of sight for days, suddenly reappearing to call executives at any hour, day or night. But as Hughes says: "I know about the important things. What's the measure of this outfit? Our internal problems? Me and the way I operate? Or is it the customer's satisfaction?" By all signs, the U.S. Air Force, Howard Hughes's biggest customer, was eminently satisfied...