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Thus, even before their overhead began, the Mirandas sank $1,550,000 in their Brewster venture, bringing a $107,000,000 foreign backlog to the company...
...year's supply of canvas for the 77,000-yard big top and 40 smaller tents. They anticipated the loss of Manila by laying away 73 miles of rope-also a year's supply. The animal market is fine: the Big Show always has a backlog anyway. The clowns (who buy their own makeup) use hundreds of pounds of strategic zinc oxide and glycerine, but they hoarded enough for the season, too. There is a real shortage of silk tights and stockings-but a barelegged circus girl does no lasting damage at the box office. One glamor-girl...
...Manhattan last week Shipbuilder Henry J. Kaiser announced a new acquisition in the East: Bristol, Pa.'s Fleet-wings Inc., stainless-steel plane builder, whose $50,000,000 backlog includes Army trainers, parts for other aircraft firms...
...Freda Kirchwey started sending out another 10,000 letters, confidently expected to get the $25,000 needed to cover 1942's deficit and provide a backlog for 1943. The U.S. Treasury has been asked to rule that contributions are taxdeductible, "on the ground that the Nation is a nonprofit corporation for educational purposes." If contributions are insufficient, which is unlikely, Editor Kirchwey will retrench drastically, try any expedient to avoid the Nation's death...
This year's production will involve much less preparation for the future, much more production for immediate use. Significantly, orders for the bellwether machine-tool industry are already running below shipments at the end of 1942-though the backlog is still huge. Last week the Wall Street Journal estimated that total new construction of plants and houses may fall off as much as 50% during 1943. Notable exceptions to the no-more-new-plant decision: synthetic rubber (already dangerously behind schedule) and aviation gasoline...