Word: patterson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Patterson's report sounded like a tremendous accomplishment. To a nation loath to drop its peacetime preoccupations with permanent-wave machines and shiny new automobiles for the grim business of arming for war, it was a tremendous accomplishment. But it was not enough. No one knew that better than Under Secretary Patterson. Said...
Like other Army men, Bob Patterson dated the U.S.'s big defense effort from June 1940, when the fall of France showed a bemused world the awful might of Nazi arms. Until then the U.S. had made piddling increases in its standing army. While the Germans hacked their way toward Paris, Congress authorized an Army strength of 280,000 (from 227,000) made possible the organization of the Army's first armored division. Congress also set its sights (too low) on a program of training 7,000 military pilots a year. Two months more, passed before Congress...
...pinch caught the U.S. with virtually no munitions industry except a few Army arsenals. ("We were proud of our lack of militarism," said Bob Patterson.) As of last week the Army Ordnance Department had built or under way 21 plants for powder, TNT, etc., was already getting some production...
...Army of 1,500,000, on paper in June 1940, is adequately housed today. Cost, including hospitals: $872,000,000. Said Bob Patterson, anticipating criticism of this tremendous cost: "Had time (which we could not spare) been consumed in more complete planning and more exact contracting, we would have saved money...
...British are thinking." Expatriate Novelist Kay Boyle flew across from Lisbon with her family of seven-biggest family the Clippers have ever carried. Hollywood's No. 1 private, Jimmy Stewart, was promoted to corporal. Heywood Hale Broun passed his physical exam, expected induction within a month. Robert P. Patterson Jr., son of the Under Secretary of War (see p. 28), turned up at Springfield Armory Arsenal working incognito as a machinist. J. P. Morgan gave Bundles for Britain the furnishings of the yacht Corsair IV, which is now in war service. Bundles will sell them for cash...