With pardonable pride, WPB announced that the U.S. had produced more than 7,000 military aircraft in May, would beat that total in June. With something less than pardonable reticence, it was mum about the rest of the military production program. It was not so bright a picture as WPB's announcement of aircraft production indicated it might be.
One day 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....
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