Word: backlog
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Report that caused businessmen to nod sagely was the backlog of unfilled orders of U. S. Steel Corp. Optimists have argued that under the New Deal steel business would continue its steady upswing without the usual midsummer tendency to slacken. Estimates of capacity of steel operations have for three weeks been hinting that steel would ease oft. U. S. Steel's unfilled orders confirmed the fact: at 2,020,000 tons they were off 86,000 tons from the month before, a normal seasonal decline...
Steel is proverbially a "feast or famine" industry. Last week National Steel doubled its dividend. U. S. Steel reported a 65,241-ton rise in its backlog of unfilled orders to 1,929,815 tons. Operations for the industry as a whole jumped to 45% of capacity-highest rate in more than two years.* Cheery indeed are steelmen when their backlogs keep swelling while their furnaces grow hotter...
...substantial increases in the prices of all agricultural commodities with a further advance noticeable in the last 72 hours in steel, copper, and silver. The early adoption of this program by Congress, supplemented by the States of the nation and the subdivisions of the State, should serve as a backlog for the preservation of industrial activity and prosperity when the same has been created...
...replacement demand of nearly 3,000,000 cars a year. Counting the replacement "arrears" of the last three years, 1933 could be a 5,500,000, car year simply for the U. S. market. Of course no one expects any such bonanza. But the figure illustrates what a huge backlog of replacement is piling up-provided the A. S. of L. holds to null cars...
...making these studies of U. S. industrial efficiency call themselves Technocrats. They have a loose national organization, Technocracy, at No. 159 West 13th St., Manhattan. To Technocracy, engineers, scholars and businessmen send money and information. But the backlog is $100,000 earmarked by the Architects' Emergency Relief Committee. Two dozen otherwise unemployed architects last week were busily codifying the data. When they are through Technocracy will, have an informative industrial survey of North America from 1830 to date...