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...Deferment for husbands whose wives might break down when their husbands are inducted was suggested by the University of Michigan's Dr. Ralph M. Patterson. "Treatment of the wife . . . has proved extremely difficult...
...reason the tabloid News has the biggest U.S. circulation (2,004,000 daily and 3,700,000 on Sunday), according to Publisher Joseph Medill Patterson's editorial, is that people approve of its "America First" line. Joe Patterson drew the same conclusion about his cousin Bertie McCormick's mighty Chicago Tribune and his sister Eleanor ("Cissie") Patterson's Washington Times-Herald. He noted that they were tops in circulation in their cities, too. Said the News...
When the Army launched its Canol pipeline-&-refinery project, the price for oil was fixed at $1.25 a barrel (plus production costs). The new price: 20? (plus production costs). Said Under Secretary of War Robert Patterson: "The new agreement is fundamentally a matter of insurance that in the future the defense of the continent will not be endangered as it was early in 1942 by lack of locally produced...
...Manhattan, Under Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson said bluntly: "Many here have settled into a frame of mind far different from that we were in on Dec. 7, 1941. Then we had unity. . . . Our need to recapture that unity today stands above all other needs. . . ." He declared that the prime source of trouble was a "smugly optimistic assumption of assured victory" on the part of civilians...
Savo Island, Aug. 8, had left the newly landed Marines on Guadalcanal in a precarious position. "Generally speaking, we were surprised because we lacked experience," so the Japs sank four cruisers, the Vincennes, Astoria, Quincy and Canberra (Australian), damaged the cruiser Chicago and the destroyers Ralph Talbot and Patterson...