Word: backlogs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Whatever the reason, the dip made the smaller and more vulnerable brokerage houses wonder whether the backlog of paper work could not push them toward the "fail-safe" limit...
Similar problems have stymied other attempts to cut waiting periods. A law in California that requires elimination of the criminal backlog has meant that, where necessary, civil judges are pulled off to hear criminal cases; that, of course, has contributed to an increase in the civil case jam. Nonetheless there is a growing recognition of the principle that justice delayed is justice denied. Congress, at the President's urging, has established a Federal Judicial Center that will, as of March 27, begin studying the problems...
...intolerable delays in the processing of criminal trials as well. In December 1967, the Presiding Judge of the Appellate Division announced he was suspending civil trials in Bronx County for at least the month of January. In a forthcoming study Howard James reports that there is a current backlog in Texas of more than 212,000 civil cases...
Stock-trading volume has been setting new records with regularity in recent years, but nothing so overwhelming as the current surge of trading has ever before hit Wall Street. Caught in a growing backlog of paper work, most brokerage offices have been unable to process and deliver stock certificates as fast as they have been bought and sold. Last week the nation's leading securities markets decided to curtail their hours to enable clerical staffs to catch up, just as they did for nine market days last August...
...slow policy of production, which has never quite matched demand. A big item in its current surge is its Model 250 sedans, which boast 2.5 liter engines and price tags of $4,000 and up. Introduced in early 1966, the popular 250 drew a two-year order backlog. That has kept production humming while competitors like Volkswagen have been forced to cut back...