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...Then, when it could not get enough engines to meet its production goal of 40 planes a day, Taylorcraft found itself with a whopping inventory ($800,000 in excess of its needs), and no way of meeting its current debts of $1,030,000. But it still had a backlog of 1,220 orders. Company president Nash Russ hoped that the court would let him continue production under a trusteeship and get Taylorcraft back...
Most discouraging of all was the lack of progress in breaking some of the worst bottlenecks. Item: freight-car output had slipped 15%. Fractional horsepower motors were being turned out at record speed. But the backlog of unfilled orders was still equal to 21 months' production. As for the steel shortage, CPA said with exaggerated pessimism: demand will exceed supply "for several years...
...competition for his $36,000-a-year job. Now Coleman, who will boss operations (new board chairman Laurence V. Britt will lay down policy), intends to cut out at least 80% of Burroughs' 400 models, mass-produce the rest. He will have to eat up Burroughs' big backlog of $63 million in orders. Unlike others, Burroughs has benefited from increased Government regulation and complicated tax laws. They have made figuring machines a No. 1 necessity to businessmen...
...there was no falling off in east-to-west transatlantic travel. The backlog in Britain of Pan American and American Overseas Airlines is so.big that passengers without influence cannot book a seat for New York till the end of next February. The jam on British airlines is equally great. When passengers are bumped off planes, they frequently squat in British air terminals for days & nights until they get a plane seat...
...eminently happy one. After an all but mythically swift rise to fame, with 37 plays, he was still relatively young. In experience, he was a brilliant, confident professional, at the height of his hopes and powers. He was a hard, resourceful worker, who loved his work. He had a backlog of themes, better, in his opinion, than any he had ever dramatized before. They would keep him busy and happy for years to come. He was ready to get down to the most serious work of his life...