Word: pattons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Among his patients: General George Patton. Lawrence of Arabia...
Stalin's Architects. What Bradley and Patton did in Normandy and after, says Wilmot, was made possible by Montgomery's canny generalship around Caen that enabled the Americans to break out. Only occasionally is Monty chided for caution; in the end his virtues completely swamp his faults. Bradley gets sterner treatment. Heavy U.S. casualties during the Normandy landings, says Wilmot, were largely the result of Bradley's refusal to use British-invented armored weapons and machines that helped cut British losses to a minimum. Bradley declined to use the British "Crabs" (flailing tanks that could smash...
...Greeley 12 14 26 Timpson 9 8 17 Clasby 7 8 15 Burke 8 6 14 Wood 10 4 14 Bray 5 7 12 Harris 8 3 11 Colt 3 4 7 Chase 1 5 6 Bliss 2 3 5 Hatch 1 3 4 O'Brien 0 3 3 Patton 3 0 3 Coolidge 0 1 1 Harvey...
...Patton found that top management salaries between 1939 and 1950 increased less than those of any other working group. In eleven years, management salaries rose 35%, while those of foremen rose 83% and hourly and white-collar workers, 106%. The relatively small executive increases, plus heavy taxes in the high-salary brackets, cut down executives' real purchasing power 59% while hourly and white-collar workers had a rise...
Concluded Patton: "Our golden goose -the ambitious, driving executive-is certainly not dead, but he is not being fed the same hearty bill of fare that resulted in the golden eggs . . ." of the past...