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...contract was signed, DEs were plopping into the water so fast it startled even veteran Navymen, and average building time was being slashed two-thirds. All this worked wonders in Washington where the Navy started shoveling out new Brown shipbuilding contracts so fast that the infant company's backlog is now over $300,000,000-more orders on hand than giant 38-year-old Bethlehem Steel had three years...
...Minneapolis and St. Paul a 45-day backlog was cut to a 30-day supply; 100,000 homeowners besieged rationing boards with applications for oil. State officials ordered an inventory of Minnesota's oil supplies, planned to open schoolhouses for the suffering...
...than anyone had ever made before. They had $5,000 put up by two friends, an empty meat market in San Bruno near San Francisco, and some practical experience in the laboratories of a nearby radio manufacturer, Heintz & Kaufman. Last week Bill and Jack had an enormous military-secret backlog, a new plant in the West besides their hugely expanded San Bruno factory, a long list of licensees, and an Army & Navy E to prove how well they had served the U.S. war effort...
...associates, and its 1942 output will hit $40,000,000. That is not all. At Government request the company is producing flight instruments, aviation accessories and potent 400-amp. generators for planes still on the drawing boards. All this work has pushed J. & H.'s backlog to a mighty $240,000,000, got Jack predicting production of $120,000,000 next year. And at J. & H. haste does not mean waste-the delivered product is so perfect that on Nov. 12 the Air Corps discontinued separate inspections, gushed: "Testing equipment and production methods used are especially commendable...
...Great Big Doorstep is good quality but very short weight. Its jokes are funny but few, its characters likable but often dull. Its counterpart is Tobacco Road, but The Great Big Doorstep is much less racy and much less real. More than a doorstep, it needs some kind of backlog...