Word: backlog
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hardy as tumbleweed and persistent as the seven-year itch, U.S. civilian flyers argued for years their worth as a backlog of pilots for the military. Last week they got their first minuscule recognition-a commendatory Army news release. The praise came not from the High Command, but from an officer afield...
Details of this "unique" job are a military secret, but, in broad outline, it is a mass-production method for building cargo ships that should dwarf World War I's Hog Island. Higgins' swelling backlog includes a minimum 200 Liberty ships-the biggest single order the Maritime Commission ever placed...
...built a fish-skinning machine, for a nearby beauty parlor it repaired hair curlers, for bicycle makers it made a wire spoke machine. But Ebco's real business is submarines and its unrivaled experience is being put to use once more. In the past three years its backlog has jumped from $10,000,000 to $150,000,000; it has boosted personnel from 1500 to 9500; it has added seven ways to it's original four; it has bought millions of dollars' worth of new machinery. Last week scores of engineers, hundreds of workmen were converting...
...last month won the official Navy "E" pennant. It has also made money. Profits last year were a record $2,832,000, even after returning $3,100,000 "excess" to the Navy.*Ebco was making subs so fast that it was beginning to worry about orders again; its huge backlog would have been all gone in 1943. But with a $400-600,000,000 slice of last week's appropriation, Ebco would no longer have to worry about that...
Tucked away in rolling wheat fields near Fort Worth, Tex., is one of the most astonishing war babies of World War II. Its name: Globe Aircraft Corp. Its age: 25 months. Its plant: an oversized barn. Its manufacturing experience: construction of only two small planes. Its backlog in War Department contracts: $18,500,000 (with $40,000,000 more said to be in prospect). Its chief owners: extraordinary and influential people...