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...Ball Pen Co. of Los Angeles, which makes the Blythe pen, was producing 3,500 pens a day, to fill a backlog of 350,000 orders...
Devotion (Warner) is a three-year-old strip of damp bark off Warners' wartime backlog. Actually rather better than the average movie, it only looks worse because 1) it is so self-consciously serious, 2) it turns a good movie subject into a peculiarly lifeless romance. The highly romantic subject: the lives & loves-particularly the loves-of the Brontë sisters...
...grim postwar plan: "Shut the damned shop up" (TIME, Nov. 22, 1943). In Los Angeles last week able, dour Donald Douglas, still in business, told his 8,763 stockholders that the Douglas Aircraft Co., Inc.: 1) had made a profit of $8,900,000 in 1945; 2) had a backlog of $219,000,000 in military and commercial orders; 3) could expect no profits...
...backlog of other legislation gathering dust in Congress affected all the services equally. The proposed 20% pay boost was still just a proposal. In an election year, no one liked even to talk about universal military training. Plans for merger of the armed forces were stalemated. Congress was still thinking it all over...
...working member of the earth-moving Six Companies, Hendy will specialize in cranes, power shovels, dump-truck bodies, etc., will have a sizable market in the Six Companies alone. It also plans to produce any other machinery the new industrial West needs. Already Hendy has a backlog of $10,000,000. President McCone expects to boost sales to $3,000,000 a month...