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...this frank statement from Under Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson, the House Military Affairs Committee learned last week that production of arms is undergoing a vast change, because of the shifting tactical requirements of a worldwide war. Nobody knows better than the War Department's production executive that some weapons outlive their usefulness, that some weapons prove themselves in battle to be valuable beyond expectations, that others turn out to be comparative flops...
...Paso last week, Under Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson announced that production of heavy bombers exceeded 500 a month for the first time last month. Unless Charley Wilson's optimism over Willow Run is misplaced, Bob Patterson may have to double his figure before the year is over...
Manpower. Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson and Under Secretary Robert P. Patterson had endorsed compulsory national labor service. Newsmen scented an Administration quarrel. But their questions struck no fire: there was no disagreement, said Franklin Roosevelt. The only question was when, if ever, such a law would be necessary. The law would create a lot more Government machinery, make life more complicated, lead to increased regimentation. And while there had to be some regimentation in time of war, the President hoped the National Service Act could be avoided. At least it should be delayed as long as possible...
...famed "Lowell Mole Patrol" and the much-touted "Take the Wrinkles Out of Pruneface's Face Association," the "Deathless Deer" club has been initiated by the B-School in recognition of the Boston Herald's new comic strip, product of the fiendish imagination of two girls, Alicia Patterson nd Neisa McMein...
...This week Chicago's Association of Commerce will bring forth a map-sprinkled plan to make Chicago as strategic to air transport as it is to the railroads. Chicago's genial Mayor Ed Kelly is preparing chest-thumping speeches to that effect; United Air Lines President William Patterson has already mounted the stump. But Chicago's plans are already beyond speechmaking; surveys have been made of 72 possible airport sites in the area, twelve of them suitable for huge bases. The biggest: a $35,000,000 dream port on the lakefront...