Word: backlog
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week President Donald Lamont Brown of United Aircraft Corp., which owns Pratt & Whitney, could have been expected to pinch himself as he looked over the production report of his engine division. Sawing away at a backlog of something like $100,000,000 (United's total backlog: above $115,000,000), Pratt & Whitney has hit the high point of its production history, above 350* engines a month, more than double its average for 1938. This production will be doubled when the new plant reaches its capacity next spring...
Kollsman Instrument Co. employed more than 400 men in its Elmhurst, N. Y. plant and its Glendale, Calif, branch factory, acquired a one-year backlog of instrument orders for outfitting new planes, received royalties on Kollsman's 200 patents. But no outsider really knew what it was worth until last week, when Paul Kollsman sold out to Square D Co. (maker of electric switches and control equipment, particularly an automatic circuit breaker cheap enough to be used in houses in place of fuse boxes...
...North American Aviation announced record earnings of $1.47 a share, up $1.17 from 1938; a little later it got a $20,000,000 British order that virtually doubled its backlog. But North American shares marked time between...
Kaufman traveled to the Times, where for the next 13 years-years that made him wealthy and famous-he remained, at a very unimportant salary, as dramatic editor. To a worrisome man who never felt secure, the job was a backlog; to an easily bored one, it was an excuse for leaving dull dinner-parties early. As dramatic editor, Kaufman left his mark. Before his time, Manhattan's dramatic pages were stodgy affairs, choked with publicity handouts. Kaufman tabooed these "dog stories," brought a light touch-which has become standard-to the writing of copy. When an underling became...
...Webster. In that half-century they have over $1,000,000,000 of construction, $11,000,000,000 of appraisal work to their credit. In the last fortnight, Stone & Webster's engineering offshoot took in more orders than in 1939's first eight months, ran its backlog up to $31,000,000 and was dickering for another $15,000,000 worth of business. Its contracts billed in 1938 amounted to only...