Word: outfitted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Back in 1952, Shigeru Murai, a natty, smooth-talking member of a well-to-do Tokyo merchant family, joined the staff of the Nippon Textile Research Institute, a respected outfit set up by the textile industry to study market research and improve designs. Two years later, Shigeru Murai resigned and opened a new textile sales company just across the street from the institute in the heart of Tokyo's business district. Flashing the institute's name and his career there to get credit, the smiling and ever-courteous Murai bought large quantities of textile and paper supplies...
...deep in the search, have formed dozens of combines to help one another. Because Canada's provincial governments hold up to 90% of all mineral rights and in the West usually lease them in 100,000-acre blocks (price to Imperial recently: $1,700,000), even the biggest outfit often finds it wise to have allies rather than shoulder the expensive risk alone. Texaco, for example, is the chief operator of the four-company Northern Foothills Agreement Group, which holds drilling rights to 3,500,000 acres in Peace River's Boundary Lake area. Some other big-time...
...hard, spun the saddest yarn of all. With Joseph McEvoy, the nephew of Beck's wife, and one other associate, Hedlund established the National Mortgage Co., thanks partly to the $35,000 contribution from Uncle Dave to McEvoy. Then Hedlund, Beck and Teamster Lawyer Simon Wampold organized an outfit called the Investment Co., which drew brokerage commissions on Teamster money invested by Beck. Through the mortgage company, Beck put a tidy $9,000,000 in Teamster funds into mortgages, and through this company, Beck's family profited handsomely...
...chief triggerman in 1910, gathered the reins of vice (bribery, brothels, bootleggers) into his own hands when Colosimo was rubbed out (in 1920, perhaps by Torrio), escaped erasure (but lost part of his chin) in a 1925 bullet riddling, and left for New York, where he later ran an outfit acquiring Government revenue stamps for bottles of cut whisky. In 1939 Torrio was jailed for 2½ years for income-tax evasion, settled in Brooklyn after his release and lived until the end in obscurity as a real-estate agent...
Guilty Cokes. One MR outfit, Social Research Inc. of Chicago, set out to discover what was wrong with tobacco advertising by learning why people smoke. It did not need to go so deep into unconscious symbolism as the Freudians, who see the cigarette as a nipple substitute. Its psychologists found just what was needed at the preconscious level: "Americans smoke to prove they are people of virile maturity. They see smoking as proving their vigor, potency." This, explained Social Research, "is a psychological satisfaction sufficient to overcome health fears, to withstand moral censure, ridicule, or even the paradoxical weakness...