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...workable. Questions of bargaining units, representatives, union security, final strike offers would be "subject to election after election," all supervised by the NLRB. The effect would be to create a "fiveyear backlog" of election cases, making the disputants "turn in despair from peaceful procedures to economic force...
Currently, United has a fat backlog of $315,000,000, second largest in the industry. For an aircraft company, it is fairly well diversified. Its P. & W. motors are being used in the DC-6, Boeing's new Stratocruiser and in nine other new planes now going into production. But the smooth ride has not lulled Rentschler and friends into thinking there may not be rough air ahead, stirred up by jet engines. Two months ago, United acquired the right to build and sell Rolls-Royce's turbojet engine, the Nene. In addition, P. & W. is developing...
While these major decisions waited, the President closeted himself in the White House, free of callers, to attack his backlog of other urgent business. He signed without ceremony the $350 million foreign relief bill. He had a long talk with the members of his commission to study universal military training, spent most of one day reading their report (see above...
...Navions were made, only 841 sold. But Dutch Kindelberger feels that Navion production kept his staff together till North American could acquire a backlog of $177 million in military contracts, enough to keep the company virtually intact. But Kindelberger did not get off the griddle fast enough to avoid a serious burn. On the Navion, North American lost around...
...doesn't America sell anything to Russia now?" spoke up the young veteran. I told him that we were willing to sell to Russia and to anyone else, but that the postwar backlog of orders was so bad that even our own people often had to wait a year or two. None of them knew until I told them that Russia has thus far refused to join every international economic agency, from the World Bank to the International Trade Organization...