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...early days of the war, A.A.C.S.'s backlog was six powerful intercontinental weather-and-traffic stations run by the C.A.A. at San Francisco, New Orleans, Everett, Wash., Anchorage, Alaska, New York City and Honolulu. In May 1942, these stations were turned over to the Army Air Forces and tied into the A.A. C.S. network for the duration...
...Hitler Would Not Wait." The U.S. had its assets, if they could be used in time-an aircraft industry already at work on French and English orders, a mechanically apt youth, a small backlog of trained personnel. And in spite of everything, nine types of combat plane were already in production: the Flying Fortress (B-17), Liberator (B-24), Mitchell (B-25), Marauder (B-26), Lightning (P-38), Airacobra (P-39), Warhawk (P-40), Thunderbolt (P-47) and Mustang...
...trouble has plagued her ever since 1937: too many orders. Though Nancy Ann has not taken on a new account since August 1942, her backlog of orders (about 1,500,000 dolls) is enough to use up all her present capacity until...
When war clouds rolled up in 1939, Douglas was a middling-sized company with plants at Santa Monica and El Segundo. But he had a big-company backlog of $69,000,000. Cautious Donald Douglas did not want to grow any bigger and did not intend to. All this planemaking interfered with his engineer's urge to design planes. But the Army changed his mind...
...lower, with the percentage of profit to gross, which was a firm 8% in 1938, now dropping below 3%. Compared to a 1938 net profit of $2,147,000, these figures are high. But despite its present position with an annual business of $1,000,000,000 and a backlog of over $2,500,000,000 (fourth largest of any U.S. company), the company had been able to pile up only $36,000,000 in net working capital, and contingency reserves of only $6,875,000. This is enough to meet one week's present payroll. And this...