Word: outfitted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...During World War II, the U.S. launched a Special Public Health Service (SESP) to protect vital rubber workers from the Amazon's scourges. Now only eight of SESP' 3,153-man staff are U.S. citizens, and 97% of its annual $10 million budget comes from Brazil. The outfit runs 249 rural clinics, 22 hospitals, 109 city water systems, 97 sewage-disposal systems. It has broadened life expectancy from 30 to 41 years, reduced infant mortality in some areas as much as 50%, confidently plans to eliminate filariasis in two years and malaria in seven. Last week in Iquitos...
Since 1943, the New York Couture Group Inc., a promotion outfit for 36 top U.S. women's wear manufacturers, has operated under a system of releasing the news of women's fashions to the entire press at the same time-a procedure that protects out-of-town newspapers against premature release of fashion stories by papers in New York, where the big fashion shows are held. Every summer the group conducts a "press week," with showings of the next fall and winter fashions; again, in the winter, the styles for the following spring and summer are trotted...
...varsity, on the other hand, walks onto the field as John Yovicsin's most successful and most promising outfit. With the Crimson rated a six-point favorite, it is Dartmouth who will be primed for an upset...
With the Henry Hudson as his base, he really took to heart the Carte Blanche brochure: "Carte Blanche . . . is a credential that you are accustomed to the very finest service and attention." He ordered eight custom-tailored silk shirts, four pairs of slacks, two sports jackets, an evening outfit of tuxedo, patent leather shoes, soft black hat and walking stick. To hold his finery, he charged two pieces of luggage, flew to Miami Beach's Fontainebleau Hotel and took a $21-a-day room. There, the first suspicious glance was cast at his credit card. The hotel asked...
...payoff is all that matters. Hardly had the house lights gone down for the start of the show when the boss sneaked off to her theater-top penthouse to read more scripts, study attendance records, sign checks. At 49, canny Kuba is head of the hottest movie-production outfit in Germany. She has fought her way higher than any other woman in the movie industry-Hollywood included-has ever reached on the management side of the camera...