Word: backlogs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...biggest chunk-upwards of $200 million-went to Boeing, which got the bulk of the bomber orders. Orders for 162 more of its huge B50 Superforts will bring its total backlog close to $500 million. Expanding to get out the planes, Boeing had reopened its vast Wichita plant No. 2; and housewives and farmers were going back to their wartime jobs to help modernize B-29s and make B50 parts...
Next in line was North American, with orders for 768 jet fighters, trainers and bombers. North American, which recently leased the million-square-foot Vultee plant at Downey, Calif., would now have a $400 million backlog to work on. So far, it has turned out only five of its F-86 swept-back-wing fighters (see SCIENCE), but it hopes to produce them soon at a good clip. A production line has already been set up for the B-45, a four-jet medium bomber...
...industry still had the biggest backlog in history, and cars were as hard to get as ever. Automakers had hoped to cut the demand down by upwards of 5,000,000 new cars and trucks this year. But last week the future looked dark enough to cause estimates to be shaved to 4,500,000 for the year...
...return of Jud Gale to the Crimson shell may help to bring down the odds on the Harvards, but experts still rate the Sailors favorites on the basis of past performance and on their greater backlog of experience. But Tom Bolles' charges seemed destined for at least a second-place, since their Pennsylvania hosts are not too highly regarded in informed quarters...
Many another bigwig agreed with Price that the boom seemed solidly shored up by orders. Blaw-Knox Co. (makers of industrial equipment), whose net was up slightly, said that its backlog was "not only the largest in the company's peacetime history, but well diversified." Montgomery Ward, whose first-quarter profits (an estimated $24 million) were up 18%, said that its entire capital was "at work in the business" for the first time since September...