Word: outfit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This afternoon, the Crimson faces a potent Yale outfit while Columbia takes on Princeton...
...Real Estate Boards' counsel leaped to his feet in protest: Nelson's letter was a confidential communication which had nothing to do with the lobby investigation, and it had been pinched from the files when his outfit had been kind enough to let lobby investigators rummage through its records. But his protest was too late: one lobbyist's effectiveness had been cut down to size...
...Bing) into the making of 44 half-hour shorts, at an average cost of $12,000 apiece, for this year's Fireside Theater, with all secondary rights held by Crosby's firm. (Samples: The Man Without a Country, The Canterville Ghost.) Grant-Realm, another Hollywood outfit, has made 26 half-hour films of short stories for American Tobacco Co., at a cost of between $9,000 and $15,000 apiece...
...been gathering evidence for a full-scale investigation of RFC by his Senate banking subcommittee. Last week, as his committee began hearings, it looked as though he had struck pay dirt at the first swing of his pick. The case was that of the Texmass Petroleum Co., an oil outfit which got authorization for a $10,100,000 loan from RFC in 1949. The money has not yet been paid out and Senator Fulbright hoped he could prevent its ever being drawn...
Chubby, slick-haired Frank John Yankovic, 34, has had a way with old-fashioned polkas ever since he got his first accordion from his Slovenia-born parents at the age of nine. But he has also had some ideas of his own. Since he organized his own outfit more than ten years ago, he has turned out polka versions of popular tunes and folk songs, besides playing such polka-circuit standards as My Wife Is Happy and Hurray Slovenes...