Word: backlog
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Trouble was a mild word for Studebaker-Packard's plight. Instead of the strengthening expected from the October 1954 merger, the combined company has been losing money heavily. Production is running 30% below 1955, the backlog of Packards in dealers' hands is big, and the company has used up nearly $25 million of its $45 million line of bank credit...
Many solutions to the dangers inherent in the "law's delay" have been suggested, ranging from abolition of the jury trial for civil cases to setting up non-judicial procedures for automobile litigation, which composes up to 90 percent of the calendar backlog. One of the most successful of these methods is the pre-trial conference between judge and lawyers. Here the issues are informally exposed, and the judge can familiarize himself with the case. If the conflict cannot be settled out of court, the trial, at least, can then proceed without routine delays...
...York state alone, where the pre-trial conference has been combined with similar moderate reform methods, the backlog has been reduced by one-third in a single year. Equity has come that much closer to the citizen-statistic...
...richest untapped hoard for TV, are up for rent or sale. Estimates on the price of the 3,000 pre-1948 movies (including 800 silent films and 1,100 shorts) run as high as $110 million v. the $21 million paid by TV for Warner's backlog...
Miltown, one of the two trade names for meprobamate, the latest popular tranquilizing drug, has become the fastest-selling pacifier for the frustrated and frenetic. The backlog of unfilled orders is at once the pride and despair of Wallace Laboratories in New Brunswick, N.J., makers of Miltown, and Philadelphia...