Word: outfitted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mobil Oil Corp.; after a short illness; in Manhattan. Born to wealth and oil (his maternal and paternal grandfathers were among John D. Rockefeller's early partners), Jennings spent his entire working life at Mobil. Under his command, what was once primarily a marketing outfit became one of the world's greatest oil producers, with fields and refineries on five continents bringing in revenues that came to $5.9 billion last year...
Every military outfit has its G.I. lawyer, learned in the lore of a soldier's real or imaginary rights. But when 38,037 Army, Navy and Air Force reservists were called to active duty last January, after North Korea seized U.S.S. Pueblo, their ranks included some professional attorneys. And as the Pueblo crisis dwindled, the reservists' discontent rose. After the Pentagon began shipping some of them off to Viet Nam, the brass was peppered with a rapid fire of writs from soldiers who would rather sue than fight...
Like any proud father-in-law, L.B.J. was telling war stories about his two boys in Viet Nam. It seems that Airman First Class Pat Nugent, with a supply outfit, has volunteered for so many extra combat-supply missions he has logged more than his share of flights and has been temporarily grounded. Marine Captain Charles Robb, just reassigned to a staff job after commanding a rifle company for five months, has become a cool customer under enemy fire. One day, explained the President, Chuck was taking a shower when he heard the whistle of an incoming round. He listened...
Dayton's has been an aggressive outfit since its establishment in 1902 by Minneapolis Banker George Draper Dayton. He lured shoppers with slickly conceived newspaper ads and free food, thought nothing of hiring an airplane to deluge the Minnesota State Fairgrounds with a million blue feathers inscribed with Dayton's name. By the time the store came under control of third-generation family members in 1950 (the elder Dayton died in 1938), it accounted for 16% of all furniture and apparel sales in the Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area. That would have satisfied most merchants...
...Greene had not even participated in last summer's drag-out battle for the TWA billings. Moreover, only nine months ago, blonde, fortyish Mary Wells, the agency's president and cofounder, married Harding Lawrence, chairman of Braniff Airways, whose $6,500,000 account had taken her struggling outfit off the ground...