Word: outfitted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...second half, Harvard outplayed the Dons, but, perhaps under the spell of U.S.F. alumnus Bill Russell or, as Harrison would have it, some rotten officiating, the victory went to the lesser outfit...
Fiery Mangled Metal. The gunmen carried leaflets from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, the Arab guerrilla outfit that hijacked an El Al airliner last July. In Beirut, P.F.L.P. immediately distributed a triumphant communique identifying the terrorists as Mahmoud Mohammed Issa, 25, and Maher Hussein Yamani, 19. They now face possible death sentences in the Greek courts...
...Wall Street, the cops-and-robbers business is getting the sort of play that once was accorded to aerospace and the Pill. The stock of Pinkerton's, Inc. (see BOOKS), the 118-year-old outfit that went public in 1967 at $23 a share, is now trading at $51. Federal Sign and Signal, a Chicago maker of police sirens, has gone from $19 to $42 in the past year. American Safety Equipment Corp., whose sales of $26.75 police helmets more than tripled in 1968, has jumped from $10 to $16. Other companies in the police market have seen their...
Other companies in the field have long been tempted to challenge IBM in the courts, but they have lacked the resources. They also feared that IBM-which controls many of the industry's patents, and licenses its competitors to use them-might not take too kindly to any outfit that brought it to court. IBM's gentlemanly salesmen, some of whom make $40,000 a year or more, can indeed be rugged competitors. Even so, the company's top management is known to take a somewhat protective attitude toward competition. IBM makes such profits (last year...
Small Catch, Slim Prices. Jahre made his choice on economic grounds. To outfit and dispatch the factory ship and catcher boats that make up a whaling expedition costs about $3,000,000 a season. In a good year, the catch of whales can return many times that amount in meat and oil. But despite the efforts of an international whaling commission, whalers have so depleted the Antarctic that catches today are uneconomically small. Ten years ago, factory ships sent to sea by Norwegian owners processed 905,000 barrels of oil from 31,000 whales in one season. Last year...