Word: backlog
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lapels of their best blue suits. The companies that make machine tools are as individualistic as their workmen. Most of them started as small family enterprises, and have not far outgrown that stage. Because of their independence, no man can say with certainty what machine tools' backlog is. Even the Department of Commerce last week had to content itself by saying that, like the aircraft industry, machine tools' business had resisted the declining trend during the first two months...
...allow much dent in high current inventories. Federal Reserve Board production index, 128 in December, will probably be 120 for January, but this includes a seasonal adjustment which penalizes January for not being better than December. Actually, many production lines were kept close to capacity all month by backlog orders left over from 1939. Only now are unfilled orders being cleaned up, a real decline in output getting under...
...Aircraft was making ends meet by subcontracting for other manufacturers; but by the time the Air Corps had bought 13 Airacudas, Larry Bell could see the Airacobra and a real manufacturing future ahead. Last week on Bell's books were Air Corps orders for 93 Airacobras, and its backlog stood at $7,400,000. And if the P39 should be released for export, Larry Bell could see more business ahead than he dreamed of a year ago. Last week the industry was abuzz with a report that a French mission was negotiating for as many Airacobras as Larry Bell...