Word: backlogs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
...last week K-F had no steel. All it had was promises. Graham-Paige was sure of some steel, but not enough both to permit Graham to get into auto production in Willow Run, now estimated for the end of April, and for K-F to build up a backlog of parts it needs for Kaiser production, now fixed for midsummer...
Before Bomb No. 1 was exploded in New Mexico, scientists spent more than a year designing, building and installing instruments and recording gadgets. For the immensely more complicated problem of an overwater test, these would all have to be rebuilt and new ones contrived. Even with the backlog of experience from the first test, could this be done by March...
...four and a half days, K-F salesmen took more than 8,700 "orders" from enthusiastic customers who gave no deposits, " got no promises as to delivery dates or prices. But if Henry Kaiser stuck to his general price prognostication ($900 to $1,400) K-F had a backlog (if the orders held good) of approximately $11,000,000 from the New York City showing alone. Carried away by all this, Partner Joe Frazer chortled: "We have, I believe, become the fourth largest automobile company in America...