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...Slashed its staggering backlog of cases and "matters," i.e., investigations that may or may not become "cases," from 75,000 in 1952 to 53,000 in 1956-even while increasing the caseload by 10%. ¶Initiated a practice of checking with the American Bar Association before recommending a nomination to the federal bench; observers are generally agreed as to the notably high quality of the four Eisenhower-appointed Supreme Court Justices and the 131 judges named to lower federal courts. ¶Prodded and pushed federal courts toward clearing their swamped dockets, e.g., by recommending younger judges, by urging judges...
...mental defectives, of whom two-thirds were women. Of the 3,663 patients sterilized for reasons other than mental deficiency (e.g., physical deformities, deaf-mutism), seven-eighths were women. In recent years the number sterilized for feeblemindedness has dropped sharply (from 283 to 165 a year), partly because the backlog of cases adjudged to need sterilization has been reduced, but partly, Kemp admits, "because the definition of feeblemindedness has changed during recent years...
...face of U.S. industry is changing as airframe manufacturers slow to develop missile lines are feeling the pinch, while the 17 contractors and 200 subcontractors on the ICBM program are booming to the point where, for example, one twelve-year-old newcomer named Aerojet-General has piled up a backlog of $400 million...
...employees and contracts to power a fleet of big missiles, from the intercontinental Atlas to the Army's 200-mile Redstone. A second newcomer. California's Aerojet, owned by General Tire & Rubber Co., with 1956 sales of $140 million and a $300 million to $400 million backlog, is doing equally well; it proudly boasts that it makes the engine or engine parts for "practically every missile for all three services...
...believe big. act big," his publishers are planning big (first printing: 100,000 copies) and spending big (initial advertising budget: $45,000). They also expect to keep cash registers Pealing merrily with an offer to book dealers: 15 copies free for every 100 orders of the pastor's backlog, e.g., The Power of Positive Thinking, A Guide to Confident Living...