Word: outfit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with cool blue eyes, was taking his bar exam in 1917 when favorable word came on his application for a Marine Corps commission; he walked out of the exam hall and never went back. In France his company of the 6th Marines suffered more casualties than any other American outfit (131 men killed, 491 wounded). He was wounded seven times. It was, he said dryly, "a life of hardship and hazard," but he wanted no other. He liked the work: fighting...
...World War II, Japan's Ohmi Silk Spinning Co. was a down-at-heel outfit whose seven ramshackle wooden factories, taken all together, were worth less than $30,000. Today, after seven years of operating under Japan's newly liberalized labor laws, Ohmi has grown into a $3,000,000 corporation, whose 13,000 employees and half a million humming spindles have helped push it up to sixth place in Japan's vital yarn industry. The formula by which Ohmi's boss, fat, arrogant Kakuji Natsukawa, has achieved this success is simple: he has paid little...
This sort of platform has disadvantages: it must be big enough (up to 200 feet long) to support all the massive gear of a drilling outfit as well as quarters for the crew and storage space for fuel, water, pipe and other supplies. Its size makes it expensive, and its salvage value, if it has to be moved, is very...
...independence, and routed Mohammed Ali's Moslem League from office, leaving it only ten of 309 seats in the local legislature. Into power came a comic United Front-as diverse a group of politicians as ever made common cause-ranging from an Orthodox Islamic party to a Communist outfit on the left. Atop the uneasy heap as Chief Minister sat old (82) but popular Fazlul Huq, who campaigned for election by announcing: "I love you all, and if you love me, you will vote...
...that Plays the Blues," which blew its way around a swing-crazy countryside from 1936 until it was broken up by the draft. In 1944 he organized the Herman Herd, the band whose piledriver precision so bemused Composer Igor Stravinsky that he wrote his Ebony Concerto for it. The outfit made Herman the top bandsman in the land. He disbanded it because it left him too little time for wife and daughter-"I just hadda go home, that's all"-but his daemon kept driving him, and a year later he had another standout herd. It was a disastrous...