Word: backlog
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time this flurry of announcements had died, Lockheed's smart, shy 48-year-old President Robert E. Gross had firm orders on the books for $68,000,000 worth of Constellations, largest single block of commercial orders in aviation history. With this fat backlog, Lockheed moved into Planemaker Donald W. Douglas' place as the No. 1 U.S. commercial plane builder. In one hop, the four-motored, 51 passenger Constellation had carried Lockheed to the top of the heap...
...since. When production of its famed P-38 Lightning was ended, it shifted the workers to its new 550 m.p.h. jet fighter, the Shooting Star. Though cut back, Lockheed will still turn out 40 a month, biggest production of any Army fighter. On top of its backlog in military orders, they have a whopping $150,000,000 in civilian orders for their shark-sleek transport, the Constellation, and other commercial planes. And they still have an ace up their sleeve: the super-transport, the Constitution, which reportedly will carry 157 passengers...
WESTINGHOUSE ELECTRIC CORP. Cancellation of its $400 million backlog of war orders will free Westinghouse for a quick changeover to refrigerators, electric irons, and other appliances for civilians. Two new postwar products: a deep-freeze unit for home use, a dishwashing machine to sell for less than...
ALUMINUM COMPANY OF AMERICA. War orders will be sorely missed. Alcoa has delivered $2.2 billion of aluminum and magnesium since war began, still has a backlog of war orders totaling $200 million. But orders on hand from civilian industries amount to a mere $26 million-equal to two weeks' present aluminum production...
...favor of this plan Dr. Bush and associates offered some stern arguments: despite vast expenditures on wartime research ($720,000,000 in 1944 alone), the U.S. is on the brink of scientific bankruptcy. Reason: it has used up its backlog of basic scientific knowledge. During the war U.S. scientists, drafted almost to a man for work on new weapons, gadgets, drugs, etc., have done virtually no basic research. Moreover, the U.S., unlike every other great power, has stopped training young scientists: Dr. Bush's group estimates that the war will cost the nation 167,000 potential scientists and doctors...