Word: backlog
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...outfit into one of the industry's highest flying companies, standing 13th among all defense contractors. McDonnell Aircraft's sales last year hit a record $442 million (up 32%), while net income climbed to a peak $10 million, with still more gains forecast for fiscal 1959. Current backlog alone amounts to $600 million. All this from a fledgling that delivered its first design barely 16 years ago and four years ago fell into the kind of trouble that could have wrecked...
DEVELOPMENT LOAN FUND, from which U.S. lends to spur private enterprises abroad, has suffered severe pruning in battle of budget. With backlog of about $1.5 billion in loan requests from all parts of world, fund had hopes for $1 billion appropriation in next fiscal year. But Administration reluctantly cut figure to $700 million, and Congress is expected to trim more...
Over the years, Pasternak has written countless poems "for the drawer" in hope of future publication, though he periodically weeds and destroys some of his backlog. Occasionally absent-minded in conversation (he sometimes lapses into a preoccupied refrain of "da, da, da, da, da"), Pasternak is methodical in his writing habits. He first puts a watch on his desk, draws a pencil from the box he keeps there, and writes in longhand, reusing every sheet of paper (once on each side for separate works): "It's not only economical, but it's more cozy. The paper...
Taking ads in New York City newspapers, the strikers, who want a 10?-an-hour increase, pleaded: "Don't boycott Q-Tips -buy them please. If your druggist says he is out, ask him to order more. We want you to create such a demand-such a backlog of orders-that our employer will have to open the plant and call us back to work...
...instrument to measure the structural-material erosion of missiles at hypersonic speeds. With a second division making radios and navigational facilities for the CAA's airways-improvement program, Topp turned a profit of $879,974 on sales of better than $10 million last year, and has a backlog of orders worth...