Word: outfit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Said Harry Bridges: "That will save us a lot of headaches, being free from that lousy outfit." The C.I.O. felt the same way about Harry...
...plodding about the country seeking someone to whom you can give a 'no-strike pledge.' I am sure that you will pardon me when I suggest that the Mineworkers are not yet ready for you to sell them down the river. Restrict your pledges to your own outfit. We do our own no-striking...
...first carriers built as such were the old Lexington and Saratoga* Radford got duty on the Sara in 1929, within a year was skipper of the carrier's Fighting Squadron One. This outfit became known as the High Hat Squadron, and astounded the country with virtuoso exhibitions of precision acrobatics. Radford was a superbly confident and skillful pilot by that time, but he was more than a mere stunter. He was interested in precision flying, precision machines, precision methods of making...
...pointed out, the painful rise in prices would bring on a new wave of wage increases, and accelerate Argentina's dizzying inflation. As for The Boys' hope of attracting new capital into the country, one economist summed up: "The trouble is that nobody can trust this present outfit. What they now give in a moment of generosity they could take away tomorrow...
...step: administrative union for a group of 29 scattered schools of all sorts for which New York was already paying the bills, including teachers' colleges, technical institutes, schools of forestry and industrial relations. To distinguish it from privately administered and financed New York University (N.Y.U.), the new omnibus outfit was named the State University of New York. With Stanford's onetime Acting President Alvin C. Eurich at its head, S.U.N.Y. began operations last year...