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Test Ahead. Now Raytheon has a rearmament backlog of $180 million, much of it for the continental radar defense screen against Soviet A-bombers, and anti-submarine sonar for the Navy. Among its other products...
...first few years the tests were given with no attempt at prediction of concentration. The effort was to get a backlog of test scores which would provide the check for future predictions...
...employees on "leave of absence," all but shut down the studio. There were mutters in Hollywood that Communism was not the only reason Hughes had acted. RKO production under Hughes has always been slow and costly; no pictures have been started in three months. The company now has a backlog of 24 unreleased films costing $39.5 million. Was Hughes seizing on the Red issue to cover up RKO's ills...
Nevertheless, the fact is that the frenzied building of the past six years has just about eliminated the war-caused backlog, and new demand based on population growth is slowing down. Last year the marriage rate was 30% below 1946. It is expected to keep dropping for another five years at least-and house building with it-until World War II's crop of babies grows up and starts getting married...
When Cochrane took over, he cleared out top deadwood, cut the staff from 4,853 to 4,211, whittled the backlog of claims. Cochrane is proud that the board and its predecessor sold 1,956 ships worth $4.4 billion for $1.7 billion, chartered ships for another ½ billion. He insists that it was a better return than any other agency got on war-surplus property...