Word: backlog
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Navions were made, only 841 sold. But Dutch Kindelberger feels that Navion production kept his staff together till North American could acquire a backlog of $177 million in military contracts, enough to keep the company virtually intact. But Kindelberger did not get off the griddle fast enough to avoid a serious burn. On the Navion, North American lost around...
...doesn't America sell anything to Russia now?" spoke up the young veteran. I told him that we were willing to sell to Russia and to anyone else, but that the postwar backlog of orders was so bad that even our own people often had to wait a year or two. None of them knew until I told them that Russia has thus far refused to join every international economic agency, from the World Bank to the International Trade Organization...
...year's alltime high. There is a crisis in his library's crates: millions of new and wartime acquisitions (among them the Booker T. Washington and George W. Norris papers) are still unsorted and uncatalogued. The library needs double its present staff (1,910) to handle this backlog. Warns Evans: "Merely by standing still, [the library may] subside into a sterility from which it could never quite recover...
...best arguments for both sides were indisputable matters of fact. Last year Bell Aircraft had an operating loss of some $2,300,000 (reduced by tax carry-backs to $657,900), which would hardly warrant any new boosts for Bell. On the other hand, the company now has a backlog of $23,600,000, is in production on its new helicopter. It hopes to turn out 500 of them this year...
...fuselaged P-82s (one of which was poised to try for a fighter-plane nonstop record by flying from Honolulu to New York), the company is testing a four-jet bomber, the B-45, and a Navy jet fighter expected to fly upwards of 500 m.p.h. Thanks to its backlog of nearly $180 million, North American had to spend so much on expansion that it lost $216,784 in the first quarter of its 1947 year (which ends in September) on a gross...