Word: backlog
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Still walking a picket line in Bayonne, N. J. at week's end were employes of the struck Babcock & Wilcox Co. plant, which has an $18,000,000 backlog of orders for marine boilers and other equipment for the U. S. Navy. Union demands, which union members assert the management refused to discuss, were for an 8? boost in the minimum wage of 57? an hour, a 10? hourly increase for all other workers, bonuses for workers on the night shifts...
...plant at Seattle, Wash. Boeing is turning out contract orders for 80-odd four-motored Flying Fortresses weeks ahead of schedule, will go into production in April on a whacking order for more than 500 additional Fortresses of a later model. Odds & ends in its $190,000,000 backlog include Douglas light bombers for Britain (manufactured under license), other British warplanes, and six Model 314 flying boats intended for globetrotting Pan American Airways...
...little Republic Aviation laid off 50 men because it could not get parts. Deliveries for the year were about $625,000,000; are now running around $55,000,000 a month. At that rate, it would take the industry over five years to put its $3,500,000,000 backlog...
...though it more than doubled its 1939 sales to over $400,000,000, it remained so. When the planemakers began dumping real volume orders on the machine-tool market in February, Niles-Bement-Pond (one of the biggest of the lot) could call a mere $9,000,000 backlog the biggest in its history. Most toolmakers resisted defense-expansion pressure as much as they could, wanted instead to ration their customers. Automen, normally the biggest machine-tool customers, began to worry. So did the British, who got about a fifth of the industry's 1940 production...
...year's end the industry had expanded its floor space 30%. But its backlog was growing faster, was equal to about a year of capacity operation. On Dec. 4 a large new list of machine tools was subjected to export priority control. Bill Knudsen scolded the industry for not doing more subcontracting. Meanwhile, investors showed less interest in machine-tool stocks than they might have if their low capitalization had not marked them for plucking by the excess-profits...