Word: backlogging
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...backlog of more than $2 billion, Douglas has contracts from 15 U.S. and foreign airlines calling for 114 four-engine airliners, including 58 new DC-7 transports. Bigger, faster (cruising speed: 360 m.p.h.) and more powerful than Douglas' DC-6, the long-range DC-75 will start flying in March...
...industrial products soaring. As the food budget dropped, consumers would be able to spend more on industrial products. And in manufacturing, there was no sign of a letup in demand. In the kingpin steel industry, Big Steel's Chairman Ben Fairless reported his company had a 20-week backlog, one of the biggest in its history at this time of year. There was plenty of sun, once people got used...
...delta-wing F2Y Sea-Dart. A supersonic jet fighter with skis for landing on water, it skitters ashore looking like an ungainly swordfish (see cut). Convair expects the new design to combine land-based performance with water-based versatility, create a "revolution" in naval operations. Current backlog: more than $1 billion...
...important. Whether Bicana Devil be comes to sight what The Jazz Singer was to sound, will depend on how well authors and directors accustom themselves to this essentially new me dinm. Despite its importation everyone should see the picture, it only to add another story to his backlog, of takes to admiring grandchildren. ROBERT L. SCHOENBERG
...court, reserving a decision, told each party to file a brief next week. With a "backlog of deferred maintenance" of more than $75 million on all its schools, the perennially short-funded board offered Allen Myers a bit of appeasement. Decrepit old P.S. 19, it announced, will be abandoned just as soon as a new school, now going up, is completed next summer...