Word: ordering
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...year's end had 932,000 gross tons of merchant shipping under construction, was launching a vessel a week (last week's: the 17,500-ton Rio Parana, for New York-South America service). The venerable Cramp yards in Philadelphia reopened with a $106,380,000 Navy order; eight Navy, 23 private yards worked at top speed. Last week, for dessert, the British attempted to offset their shipping losses by placing a $100,000,000 order for 60 10,000-ton (dead weight) freighters in the U. S. For this, the largest single merchant-ship order ever placed...
...were the industries which 1940's boom passed by. But none was more violently struck than aircraft. The planemakers began the year with an order backlog of $675,000,000 and 60,000 men at work. They ended the year with a $3,500,000,000 backlog, 164,000 men at work. Yet, corporately speaking, they ended the year as they had begun: small...
...industry expanded, but not enough. Soon outsiders were creeping in-with no better results. G. M. went painfully into chicken-feed production with its liquid-cooled Allison. Packard bravely took the $125,000,000 British Rolls-Royce order that Henry Ford turned down. In November, Ford himself, who had earlier talked of 1,000 planes a day, took a $122,000,000 order for Pratt & Whitney Double Wasps. His engineers went to Hartford to find out how to make them...
...handle any traffic load the defense boom might produce. When Burlington's Ralph Budd joined the Defense Advisory Commission, he did not seem worried either. In July, when traffic had risen to over 700,000 carloadings a week. Commissioner Budd urged the roads to fix up their bad-order cars, keep them below 6%. The Administration wanted him to force orders for 100,000 new cars at once, 500,000 by 1942. Mr. Budd preferred not to interfere with rail managements...
...Skap" stuck to her guns. "The Paris designer is free," said she, expressing annoyance at questions implying a new order in France. Some fashion experts began talking of "Skap's" Italian origin. They saw no other logical reason for her leaving a lucrative U. S. perfume business and a personable U. S. citizen daughter (Greenwich Village-born, British-schooled "Gogo") for a questionable future "helping her former employes in Paris...