Word: outfitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Meanwhile, he took a look at British industrial plants, and lived in London with wife Connie, an ex-WAVE. McHale liked the easy informality at the Economist, which, like TIME, is a "first-name outfit." The English writers were always ready for a 20-minute chat on any subject, from the sad state of African groundnuts to the poor taste of American movies. Said he: "They speak with such conviction, fluency and lucidity, even when they are talking absolute tripe...
...that job, Di Salle came all the way out of the cocoon. He polished up the old idea of a labor peace committee, called it the Toledo Citizens' Labor-Management Committee, and made it an outfit which piloted industrial Toledo through the reconversion period with a minimum of strikes-and also began to make Mike Di Salle's name known throughout the state and in many parts of the U.S. On at least one occasion, the vice mayor showed he had courage enough to sacrifice votes to principle. He thought Toledo needed a city income tax to pull...
There was, for example, one incomprehensible deal involving what he called "one-half interest in the down payment on the option of $100,000." Then he mentioned an outfit called the Rialb Corp. "What is that?" asked Fulbright. "That," said Rosenbaum pleasantly, "is Blair spelled backwards." Fulbright, with a gesture that got to be common during the week, shut off the witness and exclaimed: "It's too complicated for us ... It's beyond my comprehension...
Last week Lieut. General Matthew Ridgway presented Monclar's men with the Distinguished Unit Citation, first such award to a non-American outfit in Korea...
...164th Infantry at Guadalcanal, won the Silver Star. In Europe he commanded the 8th Division in Germany, the 88th Division and the occupation forces at Trieste. Moore whipped a sloppy occupation force into a spit & polish outfit. In 1949 he was appointed superintendent of West Point...