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Last week the company was working on $20,500,000 of uncompleted contracts (against only $8,500,000 at this time 1938), nearly half of them secured in the three months ended Sept. 15. Two-thirds of this backlog is for corporate accounts-all the way from $20-50,000 plant additions, to a super store for Tiffany & Co. on the elegant corner of Manhattan's Fifth Avenue and 57th Street. From the U. S. it has $7,800,000 in orders: for USHA's Tasker Street Housing project in Philadelphia, for U. S. Navy...
...Webster. In that half-century they have over $1,000,000,000 of construction, $11,000,000,000 of appraisal work to their credit. In the last fortnight, Stone & Webster's engineering offshoot took in more orders than in 1939's first eight months, ran its backlog up to $31,000,000 and was dickering for another $15,000,000 worth of business. Its contracts billed in 1938 amounted to only...
This question was justified by the condition of many a manufacturer's order books: to provide against price rises and shortage, his customers had swamped him with orders; now they have ordered and the foreign war purchasers have not yet come along; he has a huge backlog but few new orders coming in. Shall he operate at 100% till January-and trust to the gods for 1940 orders-or shall he operate at 75% and be sure of keeping busy till March...
...machines it had planned to exhibit at the show. The company has orders enough to keep running 20 hours a day for four months. National Acme Co. in Cleveland, sold eight of its machines built for the show, was running 24 hours a day (60% of its backlog is for export). A manufacturer of presses sold 32 of them (at $400 to $3,000 apiece) between 8 o'clock one morning and 3 o'clock that afternoon. Lathes of the type used in arsenals could not be had at any price. Prices jumped 12½% on tools that...
Last year Irving Air Chute had net sales of $1,928,400 (retail cost of parachutes: $180 to $300) and netted $398,321. After that record year's business it still had a record backlog of $1,000,000 in unfilled orders. Last week its backlog was a secret but the litter of cablegrams and war orders on the desk of its pink-cheeked, spectacled President George Waite was evidence that last year's sales and Jan. 1's backlog were marks that had long since been erased by the incoming tide...