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...built a fish-skinning machine, for a nearby beauty parlor it repaired hair curlers, for bicycle makers it made a wire spoke machine. But Ebco's real business is submarines and its unrivaled experience is being put to use once more. In the past three years its backlog has jumped from $10,000,000 to $150,000,000; it has boosted personnel from 1500 to 9500; it has added seven ways to it's original four; it has bought millions of dollars' worth of new machinery. Last week scores of engineers, hundreds of workmen were converting...
...last month won the official Navy "E" pennant. It has also made money. Profits last year were a record $2,832,000, even after returning $3,100,000 "excess" to the Navy.*Ebco was making subs so fast that it was beginning to worry about orders again; its huge backlog would have been all gone in 1943. But with a $400-600,000,000 slice of last week's appropriation, Ebco would no longer have to worry about that...
Tucked away in rolling wheat fields near Fort Worth, Tex., is one of the most astonishing war babies of World War II. Its name: Globe Aircraft Corp. Its age: 25 months. Its plant: an oversized barn. Its manufacturing experience: construction of only two small planes. Its backlog in War Department contracts: $18,500,000 (with $40,000,000 more said to be in prospect). Its chief owners: extraordinary and influential people...
...Complaints. But it was not all excellent, and there were still more questions than answers. The Maritime Commission was belabored for not charting its all-out program sooner, for not utilizing all available shipways. Companies were accused of grabbing orders just to keep a comfortable backlog. Labor was lambasted for demanding double time for holiday work, for refusing to work ten-hour shifts. (Last week 1,000 workers at Richmond [Calif.] shipyards perversely staged a one-day walkout because they wanted ten-hour shifts instead of eight-hour...
...Bethlehem Steel, which launched 45 ships in 1941, expects to launch two ships a week throughout 1942. Its shipbuilding backlog is now three times as big as its steel orders...