Word: outfitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...houses, the gambling joints, the numbers games and the dope runs. Striving for real class-the quiet stuff-they had moved into riches and power that Al never dreamed of. The trick was done by plowing their illicit earnings into legitimate channels. One man who knew plenty about "The Outfit" of 1950 was William J. Drury, a handsome Irish ex-pug who joined the police force 26 years...
With Pantalooni and Golstein still missing from the line up. Munro will field the same team that best Tufts last Saturday, 3 to 6. This outfit has been playing together much of this week in practice and showing improved passing and team play. Fortified by a Varsity Club steak breakfast and playing their second straight game on home soil, the Crimson should be up for this...
...attackers mounted a two-pronged assault on Seoul, one from the northwest along the north bank of the Han, the other from the southeast through the industrial suburb of Yongdung, south of the river. Before the north prong could get going, a battalion under Lieut. Colonel Robert Taplett-whose outfit had stormed Wolmi Island last fortnight (TIME, Sept. 25)-had to cross the Han. Taplett's men had brought along amtracs (amphibious tractors), but the first crossing was not easy...
...that were produced were not as good as they should have been. On top of the rising costs of individual weapons, the Army stepped up the fire power of its divisions and added more weapons and men. The result was that an infantry division, which cost $14.5 million to outfit in World War II, cost $74.3 million (pre-Korea). The cost of equipping an armored division has risen from $30 million to $200 million...
...make this re-recording the Band assembled 100 pieces of its famed 150-man outfit in Sanders Theatre last spring. Tarpaulins were draped from the balconies of the theatre to eliminate the hollow tones of the earlier album, R.C.A. Victor technicians claim that the use of the canvas along with the latest in equipment make the recordings "near perfect...