Word: backlogs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spending plans are due to bullish business. The company has been so successful with its third-generation System/360 that there is now a two-year backlog in orders. IBM wants to speed up deliveries and thus make the 360 even more attractive to future customers; at the same time, the firm needs additional capital because most users take their computers on lease and IBM must write off the cost over a four-to six-year period. Because it intends to spend another $1.5 billion on new facilities and for computer manufacture this year, but is down to $665 million...
Dent in the Backlog. Putting fluorides to work on a test basis, the Navy has adopted a three-stage treatment. First, each patient is given a basin, a toothbrush, a small cup of pumice paste containing stannous fluoride, and a five-minute lecture on how to proceed. He brushes his teeth for ten minutes. Next, he is plopped into the dentist's chair. A technician spends three to five minutes air-drying his teeth and applying a 10% stannous fluoride solution. Third, the patient gets up to 15 minutes of instruction in how to make daily...
...fluoride in the teeth after painting, the Navy settled on painting every year. The first treatment costs only 25? a man for materials; dental technicians are treating three or four times as many patients as before, and the Navy expects soon to make a big dent in its huge backlog of cavities, treating 1,000,000 patients a year at 48 preventive-dentistry centers. Says Rear Admiral Frank M. Kyes, chief of the Navy's dental services: "It now takes us less time to prevent cavities than to fill them...
...Since December, the Defense Department has been issuing priority orders for cotton fatigues and wool uniforms, thereby diverting by decree the manufacture of equivalent items away from the U.S. consumer market. As a result, textile mills are working three shifts a day, six days a week, to fill a backlog of orders that, at many plants, should keep the looms humming through the year...
From Thomas's viewpoint, the greatest benefit from applying computers to large socio-economic problems like overpopulation lies in their ability to consider a vast number of background factors in terms of an equally large array of alternative actions. A tremendous backlog of information on actual socio-economic conditions in different areas has to be acquired before a computer model for development can be produced. Presently, the center is operating one field station in Egypt; Thomas hopes to establish other outposts in Sweeden, India, the Pacific islands. Latin America, and Africa...