Word: backlogs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...March, T.W.A. hopes that the backlog of returning travelers will be gone, that balanced travel will put their Atlantic operations into the black. Meanwhile T.W.A. still plans to follow out its globe-girdling plans, hopes to start flying to Bombay in a month, to Ceylon, Calcutta and Shanghai shortly after...
...today; indeed, in the housing shortage a problem exists which is now much more critical than after World War I. This condition alone makes the maintenance of rent-controls imperative, for even when prices of other commodities decline, rents will not follow in proportion because of the ten-year backlog of housing. The shortage will exist for some time, with the ensuing high prices and rentals for homes...
...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...
...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...