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This did not mean, he warned, that deflation was ahead. While admitting that the postwar backlog of demand for many items had just about run out, Snyder thought that severe shortages in steel and steel products plus a demand for new products would probably take up the slack that was appearing. The economy, said he, showed "encouraging signs of stability in the vicinity of the present high levels...
Most branches of technology have a backlog of unfinished business: basic principles worked out theoretically but not yet put to use. With jet propulsion, it is just the opposite. Practical jet engineers are already working close to the limits of theoretical knowledge. Ahead of them lies a blank area which the "longhairs" (theoretical men) have hardly begun to explore...
...rest will be left as a backlog for future committee expenditures. Increased continuity, Miss Heaton says, may boost Radcliffe's low standing among Boston volunteer service agencies, which now slight the Annex because of difficulty in getting hold of the girls...
...where home-delivered milk had soared to 25½ ? a quart, consumption had dropped and worried dairy farmers asked the Department of Agriculture to cut farm milk prices. The farm equipment industry, which will do a record $2 billion business this year, was finally catching up with its huge backlog of orders. Small tractors, once scarcer than autos, could now be bought off dealers' floors...
Nevertheless, the sellers' market for the industry was about over, and as one observer cracked: "What we need now is an automatic salesman." Manufacturers were rapidly catching up with their once huge backlog of orders. Burroughs had already trimmed prices and competition was getting so keen that one maker said: "From now on, production is going to be tied to incoming orders, instead of deliveries being tied to production...