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...With no backlog of unfilled applications now on file, and only a small number of new married veterans anticipated in the coming registration, the Straus Hall Housing Office will close its doors sometime in March, Edward Reynolds '15, administrative vice-president disclosed yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Housing Office Winds Up Work Begun Year Ago, Preparing Close | 1/8/1947 | See Source »

...Lockheed Aircraft Corp., announced that his company would show an operating loss this year. Reason: suppliers' strikes, troubles with Constellation production. Because of this and a "diminishing market outlook," Lockheed was abandoning its Saturn feeder plane, on which it had spent some $6 million. Despite a backlog of $156 million, Lockheed expected to cut back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Trouble Ahead | 1/6/1947 | See Source »

...come? The obvious answer was that Big Steel's offer was too good to resist. Stockholders would cash in on Consolidated's lush wartime operations, not have to risk peacetime competition. Big Steel would get a thriving company (with a $35 million backlog) and a fabricator for the vast production of its Geneva plant. Steelmen gossiped that Big Steel, impressed by the way Roach had pulled Consolidated off the rocks, intended to get him too. But Roach was mum about that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Big Steel Buys Again | 12/30/1946 | See Source »

...March, T.W.A. hopes that the backlog of returning travelers will be gone, that balanced travel will put their Atlantic operations into the black. Meanwhile T.W.A. still plans to follow out its globe-girdling plans, hopes to start flying to Bombay in a month, to Ceylon, Calcutta and Shanghai shortly after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Rough Air | 12/9/1946 | See Source »

...today; indeed, in the housing shortage a problem exists which is now much more critical than after World War I. This condition alone makes the maintenance of rent-controls imperative, for even when prices of other commodities decline, rents will not follow in proportion because of the ten-year backlog of housing. The shortage will exist for some time, with the ensuing high prices and rentals for homes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Going...Going... | 11/27/1946 | See Source »

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