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This year's squad, although riddled by graduation, is bolstered by a backlog of bard work: four weeks of practice in the blockhouse on converted basketball courts, and eight weeks of practice early last fall. Many of the nine man spring trip squad have had little varsity competition, and the rigorous seven day preseason schedule will provide valuable match experience...
...Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corp. reported a $3.7 million operating profit for fiscal 1949, its first since 1945. Reason: sales increased 75% last year to $197 million, thanks chiefly to 6-36 orders. Consolidated still has' a backlog of $207 million in Army & Navy orders. Cf Lockheed Aircraft Corp.'s production increased 35% during 1949, reported President Robert E. Gross, but greater output of small, lower-priced military planes pushed profits down 10% to $5.5 million. Nine-tenths of the 505 planes produced last year were jet-powered. At year's end, total backlog of orders...
Things picked up a little last year as the Navy began ordering land-based patrol planes, pilotless aircraft and other equipment. (Martin's current backlog of military orders: about $75 million.) To help get the company squarely back on its feet, aging (64) President Glenn Martin moved himself up as chairman and brought in 43-year-old C. C. (for Chester Charles) Pearson, a onetime executive of Douglas Aircraft and a vice president of Curtiss-Wright, as his successor. With a sharp eye on overhead, Pearson sold off Martin's sidelines and managed...
...dance committee will have its problems. The all-college dance must start from scratch; Dartmouth's carnival and Yale's Derby Day at least have a large backlog of tradition behind them. But the men of the Key may be able to turn out a gay weekend...
...yearbook staff must pile up 500 subscriptions before plans for the Book can be continued. Due to the $390 debt incurred by last year's yearbook, "the Forty and Nine," the Dean's Office will not approve yearbook plans until a sufficient financial backlog is assured...