Word: pattersoned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Department, which has stoutly defended its tanks against all criticisms, last week unveiled the General Pershing (T-26)-the "answer," Under Secretary of War Patterson proclaimed, to the German Tiger...
General Clay has become the military's conscience pricker of the Home Front. In any decision on reconversion, General Clay will probably be on the side of such Cromwellians as Under Secretary of War Bob Patterson and Lieut. General Somervell. They want a tough, all-out war against Japan with a minimum of reconversion. Last week theirs were the voices WPB had to hear as it prepared for the fearsome job of refitting the U.S. production machine for the knockout blow against Japan. That blow would not be delivered in one swift assault; it might be many long months...
...other companies were undaunted by the grandeur of Pan Am's plans. United had previously argued persuasively for a line to Honolulu, which United's president, William A. Patterson, whimsically defined as nothing more than a 2,400-mile extension of his domestic trans continental route. They now asked for an Alaskan route in addition. T.W.A. plotted a fast route to the Orient (via the Northern Pacific) to complete its bid for a round-the-world route. North west bid for service to Alaska, and asked permission to use the bleak "over the top" route via Tokyo...
...Washington, Cissie Patterson's Roosevelt-hating Times-Herald told the story of Yalta in its own inimitable way, in a Page One screamer...
...Chicago Tribune's Colonel Robert McCormick and his New York News's cousin, Captain Joseph Patterson, are more like black sheep than lambs. But last week these two Anglophobes (Colonel McCormick thinks of Rhodes Scholars as fifth columnists in tweeds) surprised everyone by lying down with a lion; their Tribune-News syndicate made a deal with the British news monopoly, Reuters, to peddle each other's wares...