Word: backlogging
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...engines Moore believes he has a perfect hedge against the future. For while reciprocating engines are useful now because they are relatively easy to build, they will some day have to be replaced by turbines which yield higher speeds and greater efficiency. Hence Moore figures that his peacetime backlog will be nearly as big as his present...
...request for a license coincides with: 1) a Caribbean transport bottleneck so severe as to make it hard for CAB to turn down any airline equipped to fly there (and also hard for Pan Am to continue claiming that it could handle the job all alone); 2) a backlog of U.S. Army as well as South American good will for rush jobs he has been doing...
...toward the training of as many officers as possible as soon as possible. The Enlisted Reserves System has emphatically changed its emphasis from a deferment plan for allowing potential officers to complete their college training, to a means of keeping constantly on tap and ready for immediate call a backlog of officer candidates. Vague as it is at present, there can be little doubt as to the eventual shape of the ERC and other reserve...
...Knudsen, as National Defense Advisory Commission head, begged his fellow automakers to take on $500,000,000 (25%) of the nation's first big bomber program. When Big Bill (now Lieut. General) Knudsen got to Detroit again last week, it was hammering away at a $15 billion backlog, had pushed its war production rate to $6 billion a year, 70% above its peacetime peak...
...there were no new tax burdens, a 75 per cent reduction in four years, sizable drops in local rates, and an increase in reimbursements to cities and towns. A policy of judicious economy and use of surplus cash has brought about this miracle, and created a $4,500,000 backlog against revenue decreases besides. He has fulfilled his 1938 pledge of "Opportunity for the Young, Security for the Aged." $60,000,000 more than in the previous four years have been made available to old people, and stepped up vocational training has been linked with the establishment of a special...