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These lush contracts are running out, are only a "minute fraction" of Douglas' $800,000,000-plus backlog. Future profits will be made from sales to the U.S. Army & Navy, on which Douglas last year earned only...
...aside a monthly pool for allocation to 120 customers of three competing manufacturers (Rayonier, Eastern Corp., Brown Co.) who are too busy with explosives contracts to handle their regular business. > General Motors has received $769,300,000 in new war orders since Jan. 1, bringing its total war backlog to nearly $2 billions. President Charles E. Wilson said G.M. could & would handle 10% of the whole U.S. war program. > Because of tire rationing for private cars, Twin Coach Co.'s Ross Schram predicted that city transit vehicles which carried 15 billion riders last year may soon have to carry...
...auto pro duction is not merely to save steel, rubber, etc., but to force conversion of Detroit's unparalleled productive plant to war. Last week Detroit was already busy on some $4 billion in war contracts, even after $850,000,000 deliveries in 1941. This week the automotive backlog was boosted to a titanic $9 billion, thus making Detroit the No. 1 U.S. munitions maker (No. 2: aviation with $6 billion...
...this swift expansion, K. & T. credits a manufacturing technique it helped develop: subcontracting. Since the French order, it has subcontracted more & more of its zooming backlog, now figures 40% of its work is done by others. A saucy baby, it even approached giant Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing, got it to take subcontracts. The Treckers (Father Theodore and four sons) are so hepped on subcontracting that Sons Joseph and Francis went to Washington a year ago to preach the gospel (TIME...
...reputation, short on orders and cash. But he had three assets: 1) energy, 2) a smooth tongue, 3) a twin-engined commercial transport readily convertible into a bomber trainer. After a Beech sales talk, the Army started signing bomber trainer orders. Now Beech has an $85,000,000 backlog...