Word: backlog
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Complaints. But it was not all excellent, and there were still more questions than answers. The Maritime Commission was belabored for not charting its all-out program sooner, for not utilizing all available shipways. Companies were accused of grabbing orders just to keep a comfortable backlog. Labor was lambasted for demanding double time for holiday work, for refusing to work ten-hour shifts. (Last week 1,000 workers at Richmond [Calif.] shipyards perversely staged a one-day walkout because they wanted ten-hour shifts instead of eight-hour...
...Bethlehem Steel, which launched 45 ships in 1941, expects to launch two ships a week throughout 1942. Its shipbuilding backlog is now three times as big as its steel orders...
These lush contracts are running out, are only a "minute fraction" of Douglas' $800,000,000-plus backlog. Future profits will be made from sales to the U.S. Army & Navy, on which Douglas last year earned only...
...aside a monthly pool for allocation to 120 customers of three competing manufacturers (Rayonier, Eastern Corp., Brown Co.) who are too busy with explosives contracts to handle their regular business. > General Motors has received $769,300,000 in new war orders since Jan. 1, bringing its total war backlog to nearly $2 billions. President Charles E. Wilson said G.M. could & would handle 10% of the whole U.S. war program. > Because of tire rationing for private cars, Twin Coach Co.'s Ross Schram predicted that city transit vehicles which carried 15 billion riders last year may soon have to carry...
...this swift expansion, K. & T. credits a manufacturing technique it helped develop: subcontracting. Since the French order, it has subcontracted more & more of its zooming backlog, now figures 40% of its work is done by others. A saucy baby, it even approached giant Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing, got it to take subcontracts. The Treckers (Father Theodore and four sons) are so hepped on subcontracting that Sons Joseph and Francis went to Washington a year ago to preach the gospel (TIME...