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...deeply involved in Viet Nam that industry is afraid of peace. Says President Ralph W. Rawson of Firth-Sterling Inc., a Pittsburgh manufacturer of steel for machine tools: "If the war were concluded tomorrow, I think we'd experience a 10% drop in business, but the backlog would be back where it now is within one year." Adds Charles Ducommun, president of Ducommun Inc., a Los Angeles metal supply firm: "A peace market would be a bull market, and most businessmen would happily adjust to it." Manufacturers commonly believe that they could quickly turn their war production lines around...
...mammoth county's felony cases, plus probate, domestic relations and civil suits involving claims exceeding $5,000. Each year the court gets about 10,000 more cases than the year before; last year the total hit 180,000. By 1964 the court was flooded with an average monthly backlog of 21,803 cases. Today that figure has dropped to 8,900 and, equally dramatic, the average delay in getting a civil case to jury trial has plummeted from 23 months to a mere...
...time when the rest of the aerospace industry is thriving on rising demands for commercial and military planes and other sinews of the Viet Nam war, Santa Monica-based Douglas Aircraft Co. has run into unexpected trouble. Though it boasts a hefty $2.8 billion order backlog, mostly for its efficient DC-8 and DC-9 jets, the company two weeks ago jolted both its own industry and Wall Street by reporting a $3,400,000 loss during the second quarter of its fiscal year...
...Negro whom many consider to be the most likely of his race, after Thurgood Marshall, to reach the Supreme Court. If he does, he will take with him some exceptional experience in the art of keeping cases moving. So efficient is the Eastern Michigan court that the backlog on its docket is just about the smallest of any major federal district court...
Farther south, around Seattle, Boeing's huge $3 billion backlog of orders means a $250 million expansion this year and 35,000 new jobs...