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With $600 in his pocket, he quit, went to California, set up office in a Los Angeles barbershop. His backlog: one plane...
...could not even have armed itself, let alone its allies. Yet the 700-1,100% expansion in tool production, the prerequisite of victory, is now becoming superfluous. New orders reported in August were less than one-third of shipments and are still dropping, and the industry's backlog is now down to four months capacity. Airplanes are not so long-lived, but the industry's constantly increasing production poses an even more acute short-term postwar crisis...
...Future It Made. With a ship building backlog of nearly $30,000,000, Cargill, Inc. has no trouble fitting its new yard into the pattern of its postwar operations. To get lower freight rates for Port Cargill now, Cargill, Inc. has already bought the 115-mile Minnesota-Western R.R. which taps Minneapolis and the rich grainlands of central Minnesota. Thus, Cargill, Inc. has its own port at the head of the navigable Mississippi, its own railroad to supply...
...World Publishing Co. has a backlog of orders for 1,000,000 Bibles and Testaments, is refusing all new orders until these are filled. Oxford University Press (which manufactures 80% of its Bibles and Testaments in the U.S.) now fills back orders on a percentage basis, has announced that beginning Oct. 1 it will ration Bibles, giving bookstores a quota based on previous sales...
...Dive. For a company that had never lost a nickel in the nine years since smart, shaggy-browed James Work had picked it up for $30,000, Brewster should have been sitting pretty on Dec. 7, 1941. It had 9,677 production-wise workers, a fat backlog of $242,000,000. But since that time Brewster has produced more trouble than planes. It had five changes of management (including the Navy, which ran it for a month), a rash of suits (TIME, May 10), a series of slowdowns (although Brewster has a union contract highly favorable to U.A.W.-C.I.O...