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This meant that he turned over a five-year lease on the Navy's plant. Among the other assets: a $6,000,000 backlog of orders and the 500 shares of stock...
...Shipping Operator Douglas did not overlook the place of a merchant fleet in national defense. The U.S.'s remaining 10,000,000 tons (to be used chiefly in coastwise trade) would be a sufficient backlog. And on the tonnage sold or leased, the U.S. should tie enough strings to make it available if needed for another war. But it will never be needed, Lew Douglas argued, if his program is carried...
Thus, when World War II came, Newport News was one of the few yards ready & able to turn out big carriers. Nine of them, including the Enterprise and Hornet, slid from the ways. Helping matters were 1) an apprentice system that provided a backlog of topnotch workers, and 2) an incentive-pay plan that has kept the yard free of work stoppages...
This deal brought Douglas' postwar backlog to well above $100,000,000, more than three times higher than his best prewar year. But this commercial backlog would keep his plants operating postwar only a month at the present fabulous levels. Thus, even with the new contracts, he commented: "We'll have enough work for 15% to 20% of our workers...
...demand for consumer durable goods will be at the rate of $14.2 billion a year, he predicted, plus perhaps as much as $4.4 billion a year spent for four years to fill the backlog created by war scarcities. "For the first time in the history of the country the demand for consumer goods (durable and nondurable) will exceed $100 billion a year...