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When I first saw Mr. Patterson's so-called Slate for Normalcy" letter in TIME, June 21, I thought that it was a well-meaning joke. However, as I read farther, I became aware that the letter, despite its contents, was sincere...
...raised a Southerner, I was not surprised that North Carolina would sponsor such an advertisement [One Language Is Enough in North Carolina] as appeared on page 88 of TIME, June 14 (though I was heartily ashamed).... Please, leave such outbursts of "99% Americanism" to Social Justice and the Patterson-McCormick publications, and let TIME stick to the 100% Americanism of Sabata, Judd, et al. (p. 25, June 14 issue...
...after the plane announcement, blunt Robert Porter Patterson, War Under Secretary, told the unpretty rest. In May, production of materiel for the Army Ground Forces had declined 3½% from the output of April. Actually, it had been scheduled to rise 2%. So it was a 5½% failure in production...
...Said Bob Patterson: "This means that troops in training must be deprived of critical equipment. ... If this situation continues even our overseas troops will suffer. ... I ... attribute the letdown . . . to overconfidence...
...Patterson's unspoken point was that wars are not fought by aircraft alone. Before Congress last week was the vastest military appropriation bill in history: a $71½-billion program for everything the Army will need in fiscal 1944, from dog food ($3½ million) to ammunition ($8 billion), guns, tanks, etc. ($6¼ billion) and aircraft ($23½ billion-the largest single item). With such a job ahead, neither labor nor industry could loaf for a minute...