Word: backlog
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...costly "bogus rule"* that the I.T.U. had been writing into contracts for more than 40 years. At the New York Herald Tribune, the touchy bogus question brought trouble last week. When 30 lobster-shift (2 a.m. shift) printers defied the foreman and left work to check up on the backlog of bogus matter, they were fired. Later in the day, the union got them reinstated. But there was little doubt that the publishers' next campaign would be to eliminate the bogus rule...
...mail itself, Joe Axelrod says: "I've found most of the communications very valuable. For one thing, we have the biggest backlog of employment applications we've ever enjoyed, and it now looks like we can get the cream of the textile workers...
...University of California's Los Angeles campus. They had also won a contract to build a chain of four hotels for air travelers across the Pacific, starting with a $1,000,000 hotel at Manila. In all, Walt & Welt last week had contracts for $121,050,000 a backlog few U.S. architects can match. Like all their contracts, they had won last week's new business, as they have been winning it for years, by smooth salesmanship, a rising reputation for deftly mixing traditional and unorthodox designs, and a knack for "dollar-stretching...
...back and waited. Recording companies rushed symphony orchestras, hillbilly bands and blues singers in & out of studios, trying to record as much as possible by January 1, when Petrillo's ban on record-making becomes effective. Record officials gloated that they had piled up a big enough backlog of new records to last a year or more. They were hopeful that Petrillo's Musicians' Union might not be able to stand so long a layoff...
...said the division, will have no clutch, clutch pedal, or customary gear shift. For normal driving, the motorist will merely have to push a button; the accelerator will do the rest. There is also a reverse gear and "emergency low" for snow and mud. With rising production and a backlog of 520,000 unfilled orders, Buick hopes next year to pass Plymouth, into third place behind Chevrolet and Ford...