Word: patton
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Frank Patton, 41, quit his industrial-equipment sales job four years ago to take the Rockford franchise. His business has increased 10% to 20% every year, last year grossed $210,000 and nearly $40,000 in pretax profits. Among other McDonald licensees are an ex-research chemist, a former Waldorf-Astoria cook, a Chicago detective, and the onetime head of research at Kraft Foods (which supplies a special cheddar for McDonald's 19? cheeseburger...
...Sympathy. Son of the late General George S. Patton...
Smoothly and quickly, Technical Sergeant John H. Simpson of East St. Louis. Ill., swung the 90-mm. gun barrel of his M48 Patton tank down a sandy lane in West Berlin's 15-sq. mi. Grunewald Forest, aimed at a dark green box 920 yards away. "If that was a Russian tank." he yelled. "I would have had him with one round before he backed into the bushes...
...37th Battalion was a fearsome weapon of destruction from the moment it wheeled into action in Normandy in July 1944. From the start, Abrams showed the feel and flair of the born combat man. As General George Patton's Third Army led the conquering sweep across Europe, the 4th Armored Division led the Third Army, the 37th Tank Battalion led the 4th Armored-and Abe Abrams led the 37th. Leaning out of his Sherman tank, he chomped on a huge cigar and rallied his tankers with his war cry: "Attack! Attack! Attack!" Said Abrams...
...Rhine, moved so fast that he captured an astonished lieutenant general and his staff at their desks. Fighting far out in front of the Third Army, Abrams was frequently cut off. "They've got us surrounded again," he once said, "those poor bastards." Said General George Patton of his aggressive tank commander: "I'm supposed to be the best tank commander in the Army, but I have one peer-Abe Abrams. He's the world champion...