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...more of his time, finally triumphed and botany was relegated to the position of a hobby. For in that year Roscoe Pound, newly appointed Commissioner of Appeals for the Supreme Court of Nebraska, was immersed in straightening out the affairs of a court which had a three years' backlog of work. During the zenith of this activity he wrote as many as 24 lengthy and complex opinions a month...
This would make Lockheed a colossus with eight plants, some 44,000 employes, and a $500,000,000 backlog of orders. The deal had more than mere bigness. It was a shrewd move by both planemakers: their products would fit together like clasped hands. Among them were the shark-bodied Constellation; the fat-bellied Constitution; the six-engined XB-36, the "flying cigar"; the Shooting Star. There would be civilian models, from four-seater personal planes to 400-passenger transports; for the Army & Navy everything from "Flying Jeeps" to four-engined jet bombers...
...Rubber Game. In the cluster of twelve companies these men boss, AVCO has a line of consumer's products ranging all the way from self-sterilizing toilet seats to marine engines.* It has a smoothly functioning distribution system to sell them. And it has a fat backlog in orders. But like every other company, it has had trouble getting into production to fill those orders. For the first nine months this year, the AVCO family turned out $100,000,000 worth of products, lost money doing it. But last month it appeared to have turned the corner, moved into...
...Allen announced that United Air Lines, Inc. had signed an $11,000,000 contract to buy seven of Boeing's huge new Stratocruisers, commercial development of the B-29 (TIME, Jan. 22, 1945). It brought the number of Stratocruisers now on order to 49, swelled Boeing's backlog to a comfortable $140 million...
This still leaves an immense backlog, however, for since January 7, 1,718 applicants have filled out formal requests for room space and another 627 have filed applications for future housing for the coming summer and fall terms. This staggering total means that despite its impressive record the Housing Bureau still has more veterans waiting than it has settled in the last five months. New applications are pouring in daily, Hathaway declared...