Word: backlogs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cutbacks, and they had slowly geared for them. To cushion the drop in F8U production, Chance Vought is counting on missile contracts for its Regulus and heavy orders for a faster, improved all-weather F8U, which it now has on the drawing boards. Douglas figures that its $2.5 billion backlog and its big business in missiles and commercial jets can easily absorb the slack of the Skyhawk stretch-out. And to help offset the stretch-out in orders for its eight-jet B-52 bomber, Boeing last week got its first production contract for its ramjet Bomarc interceptor missile...
Stepped Up Sales. Despite the stretch-outs, backlogs and sales are fat. United Aircraft reported last week that first-half shipments rocketed to $604 million from $458 million at the same time last year, and earnings reached $26 million, v. $21 million. McDonnell's sales are 24% ahead of last year's rate. Chance Vought's sales are 72% ahead of the 1956 period, and the June 30 order backlog reached $467 million, up $200 million from a year ago. While some plane makers fear that sales and profits will nose down next year, they will still...
...billion and record profits of more than $32.5 million after taxes. Its Autonetics division has sizable contracts for airborne computers and other military electronic hardware, and its booming Rocketdyne division makes the rocket engines for a handful of big missiles. The big trouble is the company's aircraft backlog. Though it stands at more than $900 million, much of that is for relatively old planes approaching the end of their production...
...rockets with 500,000 Ibs. of thrust for supersonic Air Force test sleds. Another project: the rocket engine for North American's piloted X-15 rocket plane, which is scheduled to fly at altitudes of up to 100 miles and speeds of 5,000 m.p.h. Reaction's backlog: $10 million last year, $24.1 million this year...
...Slashed its staggering backlog of cases and "matters," i.e., investigations that may or may not become "cases," from 75,000 in 1952 to 53,000 in 1956-even while increasing the caseload by 10%. ¶Initiated a practice of checking with the American Bar Association before recommending a nomination to the federal bench; observers are generally agreed as to the notably high quality of the four Eisenhower-appointed Supreme Court Justices and the 131 judges named to lower federal courts. ¶Prodded and pushed federal courts toward clearing their swamped dockets, e.g., by recommending younger judges, by urging judges...