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...harder U.S. industry plugs at war orders, the harder it gets hit with new contracts. In April, production was $2.5 billion, but new contracts of $19 billion brought total unfilled war orders to $99 billion. At the April production rate, the U.S. has a 2½-year backlog...
Children of desperation, the Home Guardsmen could well receive a pat on their collective head for the way they had grown up. They numbered 1,600,000 men and boys, with a backlog of hundreds of thousands of others who were not so useful (American: good) at drilling but were well prepared to drop their garden tools for hand grenades when the whistle blew...
Hardy as tumbleweed and persistent as the seven-year itch, U.S. civilian flyers argued for years their worth as a backlog of pilots for the military. Last week they got their first minuscule recognition-a commendatory Army news release. The praise came not from the High Command, but from an officer afield...
Details of this "unique" job are a military secret, but, in broad outline, it is a mass-production method for building cargo ships that should dwarf World War I's Hog Island. Higgins' swelling backlog includes a minimum 200 Liberty ships-the biggest single order the Maritime Commission ever placed...
...older business and professional men (preferably over 44), the Army in February set up the Army Specialists Corps, which some day may hand out "distinctive" uniforms, plenty of work-but no commissions. Nevertheless, ASC has already become so popular that within a month it had a backlog of 40,000 names, was forced to announce it would accept no more applications for the time being...