Word: leatherizing
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...Hell-for-leather Lieut. General George S. Patton fumed, and he had reason. A tank expert who specialized in roving maneuver, he was now forced to measure his progress in yards. His Third Army was barred from the Saar by defenses west of the Siegfried Line. Core of his army's troubles was a 43 -year-old French fort manned by former cadets of the German officers' school at Metz...
...dependent on an uncertain coal supply. There were not even enough candles to give everybody more than one a month. The departing Germans had driven away in the busses and there was power to run street cars only at rush hour. Southern Italy had lost half its cattle. Leather was practically unobtainable. But with inadequate rations and black market prices, most had no money for anything but food. Many had neither money, jobs nor food...
...aristocrat. An Episcopalian, he goes to church almost every day and sometimes twice or thrice on Sunday, often taking his entire staff of 40. (He also keeps a Bible on his desk, another in his brief case.) He likes to drive a car at a hell-for-leather clip and sometimes does the same with a jeep, although in his present post he has several chauffeurs, including Henry Chambers, a Negro staff sergeant who has been with him for 18 years...
...Executive. As an administrator, General Lee is at his most terrific. His chief of staff, Brigadier General Royal B. Lord, takes care of many details, but Lee keeps up with current facts by a small, brown leather loose-leaf notebook-which a major on his staff is in turn assigned to keep up to date...
...equally high plane is the rest of General Lee's executive background. His public-relations officer, Colonel "Jock" Lawrence, used to be Samuel Goldwyn's pressagent. In England General Lee travels in a large black limousine with red leather cushions. Before the invasion he often went on inspection trips in a private train -actually assigned to General Eisenhower, who had little use for it-which had two cars for automobiles, two for staff, dining and conference rooms and various utility cars...