Word: backlog
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...copters since 1945, has sunk $12 million into research and development. Bell tried to tap the commercial market for helicopters as executive transports, crop-dusters, mail-carriers, etc., but lost money. At $23,500 a ship, there were not enough buyers. The company now has a $75 million military backlog, is developing the tandem-rotored experimental XHSL-i helicopter. The Navy wants to equip it with radar, use it to hunt submarines...
...help clarify the present by examining the past," the MARCH of TIME dipped this week into a 16-year backlog of M.O.T. films to put on a 26-week TV series called March of Time Through the Years. Cooperatively sponsored by leading U.S. banks, the show is telecast in Manhattan by station WJZ-TV (Fri. 10 p.m.) and at varying times and days in other cities...
...backlog of packages that has piled up since the rail strike began last week will be cleared Monday, the Harvard Square Post Office announced last night. The local station received permission to accept and send parcel post shipments yesterday...
Though the show looked like entertainment to NBC, its sponsors and its audience, Walt Disney stoutly insisted that it was only "exploitation" for his forthcoming Alice in Wonderland movie. Perhaps to soothe his TV-frightened movie distributors, Disney professed to see no television future for his great backlog of cartoon films. Said he: "I think the movies are still my natural habitat. The detail we put in our pictures, you just can't get out on TV. I propose to use the medium only to enhance theatrical revenues...
Rocket Oil Drills. Last week, with a $25 million backlog bulging its pocket, Aerojet announced that its $10 million plant at Azusa (almost completely paid for) was not big enough. It bought 7,200 acres 16 miles east of Sacramento to build a new $6,000,000 plant. Much of Aerojet's experimental work is secret but, among other things, it is working on 1) rocket units for underwater propulsion, 2) rocket-propelled missiles, and 3) a rocket-powered oil drill...