Word: pattonisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Under People in TIME of Sept. 24, you speak of the delicate mauve orchid christened Marshal Stalin, now renamed General George Patton. So that the realm of botany be graced with Stalin's name, why not rechristen the barrel cactus (I hope you never sit on one) Marshal Stalin...
Americans praised British staff workers, but complained about British caution. They wanted more "hell-for-leather" lunges, George Patton-style. In the event of a Red attack on Germany, argued the British, the NATO troops should roll with the punch, save themselves for the counterattack. One major omission: "Counterthrust" featured no breakthrough and infiltration by "Redland"-favorite Red tactics...
...Cleveland plant, many light T-41 Walker Bulldogs are standing useless because of a shortfall in traversing mechanisms. The Army's Detroit arsenal is still the only other U.S. tank producer in full swing, has just begun to produce an improved version of the postwar General Patton tank (plus modernizing several hundred World War II Pershings, mostly for Korea). Principal trouble: the arsenal is used as a research and development center and as a repair depot, in addition to its production duties. World War II experience was that those three functions do not mix well...
...British commander, Field Marshal Montgomery, to achieve all of the decisive breakthroughs ... It was he who called off General Bradley's victorious armies when they were across the Elbe, thus reserving for Russia the enormous political advantage of capturing Berlin . . . Eisenhower it was, also, who turned General Patton from his unchecked advance upon Prague and let the capital of Czechoslovakia fall to the Red Army ... It was little wonder that Eisenhower was received in Moscow and there awarded a Soviet military decoration, for his contributions to Stalin were great...
...popped Republic Steel Corp.'s Counsel T. F. Patton. Said he: Republic needs a stock option plan to hold on to its top executives. Last year, before the company adopted its plan, Republic lost three top men to other companies which offered fat extra-salary benefits; even President Charles M. White had been approached. But Lawyer Arthur Dean of Manhattan's top-drawer firm of Sullivan & Cromwell probed right to the heart of the matter. Unless companies can reward their executives by such devices as stock options, said Dean, they will slip away in increasing numbers to enter...