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...first stand, 15 of the scoffers took out franchises. Since then, demand for franchises has become so hot that Kroc has increased his price from the original $900 to $12,500, plus a 2.2% royalty on monthly sales. Currently, there is a paid-up backlog of 60 would-be licensees waiting (some for more than a year) for a Kroc-assigned location. Including down payments on equipment, rent and signs (all paid to Kroc), plus working capital, a licensee needs at least $40,000 to sell his first hamburger...
...gardens, patios and motel parking areas. The average small lantern, standing three feet high, costs only about $100, including crating and handling. So great is the demand that Japanese stonemasons, a traditionally unhurried lot and given to meditative puffs on bamboo pipes between mallet whacks, have a tremendous backlog of orders piling up. Japan is exporting an average of 2,000 lanterns a month, most of them to the U.S. Many U.S. tourists buy them at Ishikatsu, Tokyo's largest masonry shop, and have them shipped home...
Before long, the Pentagon proved Jones right by scrubbing the fighter-interceptor program. By contrast, Northrop's backlog for its supersonic T-38 Talon trainer now stands at $101 million...
Discount on Wall Street. Businessmen were not quite so happy at the consumer's tightfistedness. Builders saw little to cheer about in the fact that housing starts declined 2% in August. And though manufacturers' sales of consumer durables rose 1%, no fat backlog of unfilled orders was developing. One reason seemed to be that producers were delivering promptly because they still had plenty of unused plant. Excess capacity and intense competition served also as an inflationary brake, as was demonstrated last week when Aluminum Co. of America felt obliged to cut its basic ingot prices from...
WHRB them applied for program test authority--temporary permission to broadcast until its license is renewed--and asked that the mandatory 10-day waiting period be waived. But the FOC, returning after its August vacation, had a large backlog of eases, and was unable to cut abort the waiting period...