Word: wesson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ordnance's chief, Major General Charles Macon Wesson, has a habit of waving away criticism without answering it. He has also been rightly accused of being over-complacent about a job that is good, but certainly not tops, as the U.S. figures technical performance. Last week "Bull" Wesson was just back from a visit to London to see what Britain was doing in his line of business. (Said he to a pretty girl abed in an air-raid shelter: "Really I ought to kiss a girl like you good night-but I'm a family...
...Martin E. Flipse 2M, of Douglaston, L.I., N.Y.; Winsor C. Schmidt 2M, of Rye, N.Y.; Louis E. Ward 3M, of Mt. Vernon, Ill.; Allan L. Friedlich Jr. 3M, of New York, N.Y.; Glen R. Leymaster 4M, of Aurora, Neb.; Clarke T. Case 4M, of Pyinmana, Burma; and Laurence G. Wesson Jr. 4M, of Boston, Mass...
Others are not so charitable toward the Army Ordnance Department headed by Major General Charles M. ("Bull") Wesson. From war-tried London have come British criticisms: that U.S. Ordnance does not have enough punch; that the Ordnance Department's ideas of tank armament in even its latest medium tank are already obsolescent; that the Department has refused to go into immediate production of tried foreign models, instead has gone through the tortuous process of originating designs and building and testing models, before tooling for production. This last charge, at least, is no longer wholly true. On order...
Said General Wesson last week: "About two months ago ... I expressed some concern about our ability to meet completion dates for these new (ordnance) plants. ... I would be most happy . . . if it were possible for me to say that this outlook has brightened. ... If anything, it has grown darker, due to large increases in naval and aircraft programs [which have] higher priorities. ... I am not decrying our priorities system. It is essential that we have such a system...
...Army will be doing very well if that estimate is made good. If General Wesson's fears for delayed ordnance production are fulfilled, it will take more than a year to equip the Army. At super-human best, peak production on most of the schedules already drawn will not be reached before 1942. Since aircraft production has first place on these schedules, the rest of the Army can hardly expect to fare faster or better than the Air Corps...