Word: pattonisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...swarthy End Andy Robustelli (6 ft. 1 in., 230 Ibs.). who loves to dismantle quarterbacks. Wreathed in sweat and steam, Tackles Dick Modzelewski (6 ft., 260 Ibs.) and Rosey Grier (6 ft. 5 in., 285 Ibs.) block up the middle. Boss of the defensive backfield is gritty Jimmy Patton (5 ft. 10 in., 180 Ibs.), a fleet (9.9 sec. for the 100) ball hawk who has suffered concussions batting down passes...
Chief of Staff, rubber-stamped Marshall's choices of top men for the top jobs-Eisenhower, Bradley, Clark, Hodges, Patton. He resolutely supported Marshall's argument, over Douglas MacArthur's, that the Allies had to win the European war first before going all-out in the Pacific-a turn of events that galled the spectacular MacArthur, who was Chief of Staff when Marshall was a lieutenant colonel. When F.D.R. succumbed to the prolonged arguments of Winston Churchill, who insisted on attacking the "soft underbelly of Europe," it was Marshall who got him to change his mind...
Blond, long-legged (6 ft., 185 Ibs.) "Opie" Weyland, California-born Texas A. & M. graduate, made his first general's fame as head of the XIX Tactical Air Command, which supported General George S. Patton Jr.'s Third Army on its advance through France and Germany. High point: Weyland's planes protected Patton's southern flank during the first streak to the Seine ("You do the worrying about my flank," said Patton), strafed 20,000 German troops so mightily that they surrendered to U.S. airpower...
Says Republic Steel's President Thomas F. Patton: "First the foreign manufacturers took our foreign market. Then they went after our coastal markets. Now they're invading our inland markets. Everyone in the industry feels that foreign steel is a growing menace." Roger Blough has strong ideas about how that menace can be stopped. Says he: "A fundamental law of business is 'compete or die.' The only practical way to keep foreign-made products from overcrowding our markets at home is to compete in quality, price and service; and the only practical way to reach foreign...
...objective is to conclude a contract that will involve no increase in the overall employment costs of the company," said Republic Steel's tough, plain-talking President Thomas Patton on TV's Meet the Press. Not only does the current contract provide high wages and benefits, contended Patton, but it also leaves plenty of room for further wage boosts through job promotions and incentive pay. Patton's proof: since contract negotiations opened just two months ago, average hourly wages have jumped from...