Word: backlog
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cars in the Bank. If a strike does come, both G.M. and Ford will be in good shape to meet it. By setting alltime production records with 1955 models, the auto industry has not only kept pace with booming sales, but built a backlog of some 600,000 cars, enough to last the dealers five weeks. Moreover, a cutback in production would end the fat discounts auto buyers are now getting, thereby restore the dealers' normal profit on each...
...member of Dr. Frank Buchman's M.R.A., has high hopes for Pittsburgh's role in changing the U.S. Said he last week: "I like to envision Pittsburgh as a city under God, so that God would be the same to Pittsburgh as steel is to Pittsburgh. The backlog of Christian conviction and belief in this city' means more to it than all the coal in the hills and all the steel in the mills. If these forces can be trained and mobilized. Pittsburgh might become a spiritual pilot plant for America...
...Polling its members, the National Association of Purchasing Agents found that compared to January, five times as many agents were buying beyond the 60-day range. Cotton mills, an important segment of the soft-goods industries, reported an unfilled-order backlog of about ten weeks, 40% ahead of last year...
...when the regional commissioner of Internal Revenue asked for funds for 47 new employees to help catch up with a backlog of 50,000 letters in Baltimore, he got Mona instead. She revamped the Baltimore office's correspondence system, reduced the backlog to 3,000 letters without hiring a single new employee, and saved the Government $157,200 a year. The Sheppard system is now being adopted by all 64 district offices of the Internal Revenue Service, will ultimately save the taxpayers $5,500,000 a year...
CHRYSLER'S new models are going over so well that fourth-quarter production schedules have been upped by 30,000 cars (to 280,000). New orders, said the company, are flooding in at the rate of 10,000 a day. Total order backlog: 350,000 cars...