Word: backlogs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This deal brought Douglas' postwar backlog to well above $100,000,000, more than three times higher than his best prewar year. But this commercial backlog would keep his plants operating postwar only a month at the present fabulous levels. Thus, even with the new contracts, he commented: "We'll have enough work for 15% to 20% of our workers...
...demand for consumer durable goods will be at the rate of $14.2 billion a year, he predicted, plus perhaps as much as $4.4 billion a year spent for four years to fill the backlog created by war scarcities. "For the first time in the history of the country the demand for consumer goods (durable and nondurable) will exceed $100 billion a year...
...annual meeting of the American Medical Association in Chicago was steeped in penicillin, politics and progress. About 7,500 doctors jammed the halls of four hotels to saw up a two-year backlog of medical science and gossip...
...prime mystery of World War II is Hartford's famed Colt's Patent Fire Arms Manufacturing Co. Colt, as the biggest of all prewar U.S. gunmakers, had a backlog of $30,000,000 in orders when war came. And stockholders remembered that in 1917 Colt had paid a fantastic $60 cash dividend, later tossing in a 100% stock dividend to boot. But in March 1944, Colt stockholders got another kind of shock. For the first time in 27 years, Colt paid no dividend. On April 20 came shock No. 2. Up to board chairman went Colt...
Usually, when the creator of a popular comic strip dies-or even before-another man can understudy him. But when George Herriman died, King Features announced no such plan. Herriman left a backlog of Krazy Kat which will keep the strip running till about the middle of June. When that is over, a unique and endearing form of art and humor will have left the world...