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...annual meeting of the American Medical Association in Chicago was steeped in penicillin, politics and progress. About 7,500 doctors jammed the halls of four hotels to saw up a two-year backlog of medical science and gossip...
...prime mystery of World War II is Hartford's famed Colt's Patent Fire Arms Manufacturing Co. Colt, as the biggest of all prewar U.S. gunmakers, had a backlog of $30,000,000 in orders when war came. And stockholders remembered that in 1917 Colt had paid a fantastic $60 cash dividend, later tossing in a 100% stock dividend to boot. But in March 1944, Colt stockholders got another kind of shock. For the first time in 27 years, Colt paid no dividend. On April 20 came shock No. 2. Up to board chairman went Colt...
Usually, when the creator of a popular comic strip dies-or even before-another man can understudy him. But when George Herriman died, King Features announced no such plan. Herriman left a backlog of Krazy Kat which will keep the strip running till about the middle of June. When that is over, a unique and endearing form of art and humor will have left the world...
...income of American Cable & Radio Corp., which earned a fat $1,389,503 in the first three quarters of 1943. A whopping 50% of consolidated earnings came from an I. T. & T. baby: Federal Telephone and Radio Corp. whose plants are busy with a $100,000,000 backlog of war orders...
...only industry in town-it was shut down -got the Navy to equip the plant, and began to turn out heavy-caliber shells. He kept on scouting U.S. industry for more bargains, bought the Quimby Pump Co., whose Newark and New Brunswick (N.J.) plants had a sizable backlog of Navy and Maritime Commission orders. To get further diversification he set up a new division of the Porter Co. and plunged into the gas & oil business. Although still on an experimental basis, he grossed a tidy $250,000 last year from wells in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Kansas...