Word: pattons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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CHRYSLER, which lost a big chunk of its defense business when General Motors took over as sole supplier of Patton M48 medium tanks last year, will soon be back in medium-tank production. By underbidding G.M., Chrysler won a new $160,600,000 Army contract for 1,800 Pattons to be produced at its Newark, Del. plant, has also landed a $22 million contract for experimental work on the Army's secret "Redstone" ground-to-ground guided missile...
...Crimson runners crossed the Franklin Park finish line yesterday before Bob Patton, Brown's number one runner, could complete the 4.2 mile distance. This remarkable early-season sweep gave the varsity cross-country team a 15 to 50 victory, its third straight of the year...
When a rampant Senator fumbles for an analogy during a non-political after-dinner speech, he will often preface his remarks with "Reds like" and then add the names of whoever comes first to mind--John Patton Davies, John Stuart Service, or any of a half dozen others. Every campaigner has at his disposal--for quick use before the microphone is switched off--a neatly catalogued list of whipping boys who have been accused but not necessarily convicted...
...hill in Port Lyautey's medina is a dusty sheep market. Legionnaires drove the Arab men there and herded them under the muzzle of a Patton tank. A dozen policemen formed a gauntlet, six on either side. One by one, the Arabs were thrust forward, each with his hands on his head...
Anxious Calls. The word from the State Department was not at all what Smith had expected: Dulles found the Knowland amendment unacceptable. In view of that Smith suggested a delay in the committee vote. California's Knowland, who operates with the finesse of a Patton tank, roared his protest: the Senate is coequal with the executive branch and he was tired of giving in to the State Department...