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...Franco government, for its part, did not like to surrender sovereignty over any of its own military bases. Also, Spain hoped to raise the aid ante by playing coy. (Franco's hope: that the U.S. would outfit all Spain's armed forces, and re-equip the transportation system, in return for the base rights.) Complained a Spanish diplomat: "You Americans outfit the rest of the world with wardrobes, but for us you have only a toothbrush...
...this is merely the idea of some Brockton sporting goods outfit, all well and good. But if Al Weill and the others who think for Rocky outside the ring really believe this-and intend to see it come true-there are going to be some badly butchered faces before the present heavyweight champion of the world retires undefeated...
...Odor of Dead Fish. At wit's end by Feb. 3, 1927, Lindbergh dashes off a telegram to an almost unknown San Diego outfit called Ryan Airlines, gets an answer back the next day: "Can build plane . . . Delivery about three months." Lindbergh heads for the coast, finds Ryan Airlines in a dilapidated waterfront building with no flying field, no hangar, no sound of engines-only the pervasive odor of dead fish from a nearby cannery. But the competent chief engineer, Donald Hall, impresses Lindbergh. The order is placed. With five other transatlantic flights poised to go, a race against...
...telephoned, and Alf noticed that Clara's isolation led her to speak in dated British slang, with such expressions as "ripping" and "top-hole." Alf sent Clara dresses and a fur coat; he sent Nicky, the seven-year-old son he had never seen, a complete Hopalong Cassidy outfit with a "bristling armory of guns...
...will also find lunchrooms, restaurants, buffets, post offices, savings-bank branches, theater-ticket offices, and rest rooms for mothers and children in Upper Row. It sounded very much like capitalistic Macy's in New York, except that it will all be state run, of course, by a giant outfit called GUM (Government Universal Stores...