Word: backlogs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...World Publishing Co. has a backlog of orders for 1,000,000 Bibles and Testaments, is refusing all new orders until these are filled. Oxford University Press (which manufactures 80% of its Bibles and Testaments in the U.S.) now fills back orders on a percentage basis, has announced that beginning Oct. 1 it will ration Bibles, giving bookstores a quota based on previous sales...
This news is worse than it sounds. Under the Army's timetable of planning ahead, the production goal must be set higher month after month, until the still-growing Army is wholly equipped to the last shoelace and gas mask, and further, until the Army has a solid backlog of reserve equipment for the changing needs of the war. When production falls below goals two months in a row, as seems to have happened, the Army loses not only equipment but time-and if enough time is lost, an all-out assault on Festung Europa may be delayed...
...Dive. For a company that had never lost a nickel in the nine years since smart, shaggy-browed James Work had picked it up for $30,000, Brewster should have been sitting pretty on Dec. 7, 1941. It had 9,677 production-wise workers, a fat backlog of $242,000,000. But since that time Brewster has produced more trouble than planes. It had five changes of management (including the Navy, which ran it for a month), a rash of suits (TIME, May 10), a series of slowdowns (although Brewster has a union contract highly favorable to U.A.W.-C.I.O...
...Look to Lockheed for leadership" is a slogan which zooming Lockheed Aircraft's President Robert Gross likes to underline in all his ads. Last week Bob Gross looked up from his billion-dollar backlog of fighters, bombers and Army transports long enough to announce a pioneering move to maintain Lockheed leadership in the postwar world: the purchase (for $3,750,000) of a controlling interest in the Pacific Finance Corp. of California...
...court beside his big white Monterrey-style home in fashionable San Marino. He collects ships' models, thinks up nicknames for his two children (currently called Punch & Judy), whirls visitors through the shipyards in a maroon Lincoln. But what he enjoys most is contemplating Consolidated's whopping backlog of $480,261,000 (including seven types of ships and 4-to-5-in. naval ack-ack guns) and thinking up tricks to chew that backlog up faster...