Word: backlog
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the company was working on $20,500,000 of uncompleted contracts (against only $8,500,000 at this time 1938), nearly half of them secured in the three months ended Sept. 15. Two-thirds of this backlog is for corporate accounts-all the way from $20-50,000 plant additions, to a super store for Tiffany & Co. on the elegant corner of Manhattan's Fifth Avenue and 57th Street. From the U. S. it has $7,800,000 in orders: for USHA's Tasker Street Housing project in Philadelphia, for U. S. Navy...
This question was justified by the condition of many a manufacturer's order books: to provide against price rises and shortage, his customers had swamped him with orders; now they have ordered and the foreign war purchasers have not yet come along; he has a huge backlog but few new orders coming in. Shall he operate at 100% till January-and trust to the gods for 1940 orders-or shall he operate at 75% and be sure of keeping busy till March...
...machines it had planned to exhibit at the show. The company has orders enough to keep running 20 hours a day for four months. National Acme Co. in Cleveland, sold eight of its machines built for the show, was running 24 hours a day (60% of its backlog is for export). A manufacturer of presses sold 32 of them (at $400 to $3,000 apiece) between 8 o'clock one morning and 3 o'clock that afternoon. Lathes of the type used in arsenals could not be had at any price. Prices jumped 12½% on tools that...
Hollywood's markets, it also, in the immediate future, reduced Hollywood's competition. British, French and German studios shut down, and their backlog of product could not last more than three months. Out of the running, they would leave U. S. pictures a free hand in the rich world market. Russia makes 95% of the pictures shown in its theatres, but all other countries are steady cinema customers of the U. S. India makes only 50% of its pictures, Japan only 35%, Italy, Yugoslavia, Mexico, Sweden and the South American countries all less than 10%. Playing this probability...
Last year Irving Air Chute had net sales of $1,928,400 (retail cost of parachutes: $180 to $300) and netted $398,321. After that record year's business it still had a record backlog of $1,000,000 in unfilled orders. Last week its backlog was a secret but the litter of cablegrams and war orders on the desk of its pink-cheeked, spectacled President George Waite was evidence that last year's sales and Jan. 1's backlog were marks that had long since been erased by the incoming tide...