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Dogged Robert P. Patterson, Under Secretary of War, blew the bugle for battle with this charge: the superduper, overriding priority won by "Bull Bill" Jeffers four months ago to bull through his rubber program had raised unholy hob with the 100-octane gasoline pro gram. Training planes have been grounded in this country, said Mr. Patterson, thus delaying the day when swarms of bombers will finally smash the Axis...
...rubber program has not interfered with a single other pro gram. In fact it has lifted along other programs and has provided additional capacities by uncovering new sources of sup ply. The final answer is that the rubber program is going ahead." Finally he demanded an investigation of Patterson's statement...
Again, Senator Truman. Hardly had Patterson and Ickes finished mortar-firing on Jeffers when the Navy let go a torpedo, too. The condensers, valves and other instruments which Bill Jeffers had snatched from the high-octane program the Navy must also have for its escort program. The Navy also wanted Jeffers stripped of his priority...
...Stress. This week Under Secretary Patterson revealed that the lessons of combat were not the only factors which forced production changeovers. The Army could still use plenty of the weapons whose production was now being reduced. But necessity's whip was laid on the Army's back last year by the War Production Board, which ordered a cut in 1943's armed-forces production schedule from $93 billions to $75 billions...
...Says Bob Patterson: "The idea that the cutback in production is the result of an abundance of certain weapons is wholly false. We probably never will have an abundance because of the heavy drain of battle attrition...