Word: backlog
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...year's alltime high. There is a crisis in his library's crates: millions of new and wartime acquisitions (among them the Booker T. Washington and George W. Norris papers) are still unsorted and uncatalogued. The library needs double its present staff (1,910) to handle this backlog. Warns Evans: "Merely by standing still, [the library may] subside into a sterility from which it could never quite recover...
...best arguments for both sides were indisputable matters of fact. Last year Bell Aircraft had an operating loss of some $2,300,000 (reduced by tax carry-backs to $657,900), which would hardly warrant any new boosts for Bell. On the other hand, the company now has a backlog of $23,600,000, is in production on its new helicopter. It hopes to turn out 500 of them this year...
...Navion is being plugged-and sold-more as a work plane for companies than a play plane for individuals. Of the 559 sales to date, 90% have been sold for business uses. At present production of ten a day, there is already a four-month backlog. By year's end, North American hopes to have 2,500 Navions off its assembly line...
...fuselaged P-82s (one of which was poised to try for a fighter-plane nonstop record by flying from Honolulu to New York), the company is testing a four-jet bomber, the B-45, and a Navy jet fighter expected to fly upwards of 500 m.p.h. Thanks to its backlog of nearly $180 million, North American had to spend so much on expansion that it lost $216,784 in the first quarter of its 1947 year (which ends in September) on a gross...
Then came Treasurer George F. Addes with his annual report. U.A.W.'s war chest, he reported, had skidded into the red from a $2 million backlog on V-E day. The union was now "barely able to keep its head above water with increased dues from its decreased peacetime membership. And U.A.W. had also cashed in 3,000 in Government bonds...