Word: backlogs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wore on, American found space on rival lines for 56 passengers on the relatively light eastbound run. But 130 others waited vainly at European airports, unable to find space on the crowded westbound flights of other lines. (By week's end A.O.A.'s European backlog was close...
...British not bought more machines? They had not been able to buy them. U.S. manufacturers were filling a big backlog of domestic orders. Britain, for example, tried this year to find 100 heavy-duty tractors, could get less than six. Searches for strip-mining excavating equipment and woodworking machinery drew a blank...
...workable. Questions of bargaining units, representatives, union security, final strike offers would be "subject to election after election," all supervised by the NLRB. The effect would be to create a "fiveyear backlog" of election cases, making the disputants "turn in despair from peaceful procedures to economic force...
Currently, United has a fat backlog of $315,000,000, second largest in the industry. For an aircraft company, it is fairly well diversified. Its P. & W. motors are being used in the DC-6, Boeing's new Stratocruiser and in nine other new planes now going into production. But the smooth ride has not lulled Rentschler and friends into thinking there may not be rough air ahead, stirred up by jet engines. Two months ago, United acquired the right to build and sell Rolls-Royce's turbojet engine, the Nene. In addition, P. & W. is developing...
While these major decisions waited, the President closeted himself in the White House, free of callers, to attack his backlog of other urgent business. He signed without ceremony the $350 million foreign relief bill. He had a long talk with the members of his commission to study universal military training, spent most of one day reading their report (see above...