Word: outfit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Create an Office for Disarmament Planning in the Bureau of the Budget, rather than a separate Commission as your editorial suggested. If a new outfit is to be created, by all means let it placed where it can share in existing power and have a reasonable chance to be effective. Because of the jobs it should do, the Budget Bureau is probably the ideal place. This Office would work with all the major executive departments in drawing up alternative future programs of needed public expenditures, and with the Treasury on tax programs, based on estimates of possible patterns of defense...
...Major General Ralph Emerson Truman. 81, U.S.N.G. (ret.), testy first cousin of Harry, a onetime Spanish-American War corporal and World War I captain who, as an ardent week-end warrior, never forgave the Regular Army for relieving his command of the 35th Division, a Missouri-Kansas National Guard outfit he helped form, on the eve of World Wrar II; of a heart attack; in Kansas City...
...Sherman Act. to fix prices and rig bids on "open-die steel forgings" (large steel shapes, mostly shafts and axles, formed by hammering or pressing the metal rather than by rolling or casting). Some of the fixing and rigging sessions took place at meetings of a New York outfit called the Open Die Forging Institute, according to the indictment, and at these meetings the institute's secretary was excused, "with the result that the minutes did not reflect such discussions." The conspiracy led to artificially high prices on forgings sold to the Navy, the Army and certain private firms...
...Orleans at the controls of a four-jet Lockheed Jetstar named Scarlett O'Hara. In Hanover, West Germany, 5,120 miles later (average speed: 489 m.p.h.), Cosmetics Queen Cochran, a onetime beauty-parlor odd-jobs girl who now owns Jacqueline Cochran, Inc., slipped into a suitably stylish Easter outfit, then stepped out to claim no fewer than 49 new flight records. (She already holds the ladies' speed mark: 842.6 m.p.h. in an Air Force T-38 jet.) Major new record claimed: longest straight-line distance in a jet piloted by a woman-2,279 miles from New Orleans...
...uncommon tradition, Congress will unhand the money (or most of it) without strings-grateful that a sophisticated outfit knows how to spend...