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...General Sherman tank between the advancing Germans and a fleeing motorized column. Hightower's tank held off nine Mark IVs and a Mark VI, destroyed four of them and damaged the Mark VI before a shell exploded in one of his gas tanks. Hightower shouted to his crew: "Git!" They got, jumping out "like peas from a hot pod." The other, thin-skinned vehicles had been saved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Worst Defeat | 3/1/1943 | See Source »

...them damned TDs again," growled a sweating sergeant. "I don't see how they git all over the whole damned countryside." The tank side finally won according to plan in this action through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - Lessons of the Cumberland | 11/2/1942 | See Source »

...umpire had just adjudged it a capture when the tank column rolled up and captured the infantry, freeing the Negroes. While the tanks were halted, one of Bailey's hands moseyed up to a small opening in the nearest tank. "If I git in the Army, kin I git put in one like this?" he asked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - The Green Pastures | 10/26/1942 | See Source »

...Gene sat glumly by the radio, staring suspiciously through his horn-rimmed glasses at the voice which told him his days as Georgia Governor were numbered. A news photographer entered, asked for a big smile in case the trend changed by the morning editions. Ol' Gene snapped: "Git yore pictures and hurry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Exit Gene Talmadge | 9/21/1942 | See Source »

...dropped to 75?. Old Man Towne hung on: "Hit's wuth a dollar and I aim to git a dollar." He mortgaged his crop, his next year's crop, his 20,000 acres of lien-free land. Next year the Delta went broke. Towne's banker wired that he would have to sell. Towne wired back "NO." "I ain't aiming to sell hit fer less'n hit's wuth," he said. "But," said the banker, "all it's worth is what the market says it is." "The market is them New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cotton King | 8/31/1942 | See Source »

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