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...Although output has doubled since the Korean war began, machine tools are in such short supply that the industry will have to use up much of its own output to set new machine-tool producers up in business. Meanwhile, it hacks away at a $1 billion backlog of urgent orders...
...Manage. Don Mitchell has put $39 million into expansion since war's end. He has a $75 million backlog of military orders for everything from proximity fuses to radar sets. He is building a new $5,000,000 plant at Burlington, Iowa to make radio tubes for defense, more than doubling Sylvania's Long Island physics laboratory to handle work for the Atomic Energy Commission, and building or expanding six more plants...
...dual-rotating propellers for use with them. With all this, United Aircraft, which has paid a dividend every year since 1935, last year chalked up $269 million in sales and a net of $13.2 million. In 1951's first quarter it earned about $3,700,000. Total backlog: $910 million...
...million, almost twice the record of last year, and the net was $2,400,000, up 24%. Roy Fruehauf sees no reason why sales should not double this year, reach $260 million. Last week Fruehauf went to work on a new $50 million Government order, added to its backlog of $50 million in civilian orders and an earlier $50 million in military contracts...
...other engine makers can triple their production this year-and the airframe makers are hitched to that schedule. Fairchild is making only eight of its cargo-carrying Cng "Flying Boxcars" a month, could produce 20 if it could get engines. Boeing is sitting on part of its billion-dollar backlog, waiting for Pratt & Whitney engines for its B50 medium bomber...