Word: backlog
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Freda Kirchwey started sending out another 10,000 letters, confidently expected to get the $25,000 needed to cover 1942's deficit and provide a backlog for 1943. The U.S. Treasury has been asked to rule that contributions are taxdeductible, "on the ground that the Nation is a nonprofit corporation for educational purposes." If contributions are insufficient, which is unlikely, Editor Kirchwey will retrench drastically, try any expedient to avoid the Nation's death...
This year's production will involve much less preparation for the future, much more production for immediate use. Significantly, orders for the bellwether machine-tool industry are already running below shipments at the end of 1942-though the backlog is still huge. Last week the Wall Street Journal estimated that total new construction of plants and houses may fall off as much as 50% during 1943. Notable exceptions to the no-more-new-plant decision: synthetic rubber (already dangerously behind schedule) and aviation gasoline...
...contract was signed, DEs were plopping into the water so fast it startled even veteran Navymen, and average building time was being slashed two-thirds. All this worked wonders in Washington where the Navy started shoveling out new Brown shipbuilding contracts so fast that the infant company's backlog is now over $300,000,000-more orders on hand than giant 38-year-old Bethlehem Steel had three years...
...Minneapolis and St. Paul a 45-day backlog was cut to a 30-day supply; 100,000 homeowners besieged rationing boards with applications for oil. State officials ordered an inventory of Minnesota's oil supplies, planned to open schoolhouses for the suffering...
...than anyone had ever made before. They had $5,000 put up by two friends, an empty meat market in San Bruno near San Francisco, and some practical experience in the laboratories of a nearby radio manufacturer, Heintz & Kaufman. Last week Bill and Jack had an enormous military-secret backlog, a new plant in the West besides their hugely expanded San Bruno factory, a long list of licensees, and an Army & Navy E to prove how well they had served the U.S. war effort...