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...Jeffers explained: a loafer, in railroad vernacular, is "a person assigned to an unnecessary job." In that category he put "socalled inspectors and expediters" who were trying to "take over production and tell managers how to do their jobs." Answer came from another witness, Under Secretary of War Robert Patterson: Army and Navy representatives were "indispensable" breakers of bottlenecks in war plants; "Mr. Jeffers himself has a corps of expediters in his rubber program...
...side of the case had already been well stated by Chief of Staff General George Catlett Marshall, who says the quotas were drawn up with all problems, including shipping, firmly in mind (TIME, Dec. 21). Two more rebuttal points were presented by Under Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson: 1) "It is ... essential to obtain superiority . . . the Axis powers and their satellites have under arms 569 divisions. This is considerably more than we and our British and Russian allies have." 2) "We are training men in 1943 to fight in 1944. Our training program must contemplate a long...
...moon is clear that harbor ought to be framed like a picture," our flight leader, Major S. R. Patterson, said to me as we took off in his Pink Lady...
...Yeah, that's right," said Patterson, "but I hope we get in and away before those night fighters can rise and meet...
Consensus of the 14 newspaper, magazine and radio men present was much the same For three days they had watched the Army display its might on a lids-off tour arranged by Under Secretary Robert P. Patterson. Purpose: to give the U.S. a glimpse of how its war tax dollars are being spent, to inspire confidence in the foresight and energy of the men directing the war's technical side...