Word: backlogs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...court of review brings up a case from a lower court. To reduce the Supreme Court's work load of unimportant cases, Congress in 1925 greatly increased the court's power to decide which appellate cases it would hear. By 1929 the court had cut through its backlog...
Heavy electrical equipment makers also reported healthy improvement in new orders. General Electric's large steam-turbine-generator department said that orders thus far this year are almost equal those for all of 1958, while Allis-Chalmers' backlog of unfilled orders has risen 72% since the end of last year, now stands at $225 million, a record peacetime total. Other sectors of the capital-goods complex, such as generator makers, locomotive builders, and construction equipment manufacturers, reported rising new business. Summed up McClure Kelley, president of Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton (machine tools, road-building equipment): "The improvement comes from...
...drivers are not necessarily beginners. With only 850 examiners to deal with the flood of applications for licenses (last year a record 1,345,832 applied), there is a constant backlog of a quarter-million unlicensed drivers. The L-plate army is growing. In less than two years nearly half the 2,000,000 Britons who took driver's tests flunked them, many for the second and third time. All Britain cheered last month when 39-year-old Derek Brown passed his test: he had been driving with L plates for 22 years and failed twelve previous exams...
Eventually, the change in comedy styles brought the curtain raiser down. Columbia refused to renew when The Three Stooges' contract ended on Jan. 1, 1958, has since sold its pre-1948 backlog of their films to television. The trio considered breaking up the act-until TV, that supposed wrecker of old-style comedians, turned out to be their salvation. The kiddy population roared at the antique routines. By last week the reruns were running ahead of such competition as Popeye and Mickey Mouse among the romper set, and the rejuvenated Three Stooges were swinging cross-country in a highly...
...landing equipment on eight of its planes, has found it "very satisfactory." Ozark Air Lines, another feeder, has also signed up. Lear profits in the first quarter of its fiscal year ran 33% ahead of 1958 (which registered an 87% gain over 1957) to better than $400,000. The backlog of firm orders was up to $77 million, biggest in the company's history, and a 10? dividend was declared, the third such quarterly dividend in a row. Last week Bill Lear was looking for more. He got ready to fly to Japan to line up Japanese engineering...