Word: outfit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Flying from his home field near Dallas to Perrin Air Force Base near Sherman. Texas Air National Guard Major Harry C. Knickerbocker Jr. hoped to obtain some used ground-training equipment for his outfit's F-86 jets. Knickerbocker would be welcome to the equipment, said a Perrin officer, except that it was being used "by the class with the Yugoslavs in it." Recalls Knickerbocker of that late September incident: "It didn't hit me for a few minutes. Then you might say I got a real jolt...
Another rich field for quackery is gadgets, and the FDA had a rogues' gallery of them from court cases it has recently won. The "Ortho-Structurometer," a posture adjuster, was falsely claimed to be effective for tuberculosis, asthma, heart conditions and ear-nose-throat infections. A San Francisco outfit got into space-age labeling with the "Oscilloclast," "Oscillotron," "Dipolaray" and "Depolatron." A Southern California chiropractor achieved the ultimate in low fidelity by distributing an endless-tape recording of Smoke Gets in Your Eyes. The machine emitted no music, but the promoter claimed that vibrations, transmitted through electrodes, cured cancer...
...Arrow Tattoo. The 32nd is a crack outfit. It earned its shoulder patch, a red arrow piercing a battle line, in the Meuse-Argonne during World War I. Its first casualties were suffered when the troopship Tuscania was sunk by a German submarine. In World War II the Red Arrow Division fought its way from Buna to Saidor to Hollandia to Aitape to Luzon in 654 combat days-more than any other army unit in the nation's history. Along the way its men won n Congressional Medals of Honor, 49 Legions of Merit, 153 Distinguished Service Crosses...
...Wausau Salesman Robert Melang: "The main thing my wife fears is loneliness, especially at night after she's put the children to bed. Except for her and the kids, I don't mind going. We've had good training-we've got a real good outfit." Says Antigo's Captain Norman Martell, the father of eight: "Sure, it's rough on all of us, but that's what we're here for. I've been building myself up a little insurance business for the last six years...
...Angeles' Hergenrather Associates, founded seven years ago as the first California-based outfit, has played a major role in converting West Coast corporations to acceptance of executive recruiting...