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...time he had moved to California, after striking a hard bargain with San Diego for land and facilities, his PBYs were making history in the Navy, and Consolidated was beginning to fatten. Today, with its $750,000,000 backlog, for all its mighty rushing river of production, Consolidated's San Diego plant is not enough. A factory is being built at Fort Worth, Tex. to turn out more B-24s, under Consolidated management; another at Tulsa, Okla., to be operated by Douglas Aircraft...
Skeptical gallerygoers realized that the ballots, too, were a dream, that Los Angeles was likely to remain its sprawling self for years. The city has a backlog of traffic-routing plans that have never got past the blueprint stage. Of its present city planning commission's 100 miles of projected parkways, 15 miles have actually been completed. New congestion caused by the mushrooming of airplane, shipbuilding and other defense industries is keeping the planning commission's hands full. The authorities are already frightfully busy now trying to keep bad from becoming worse...
More serious is the prospect of 1942 traffic, for which the roads need at least 150,000 new cars. Last week carbuilders (for lack of steel) still operated at around 35% of capacity, making no dent on their 90,000-car backlog. In September, the roads got 9,000 fewer new cars than they had figured...
...last eleven months, Empire has expanded into 14 corporations, six plants and a shipyard. It is now delivering every month $1,000,000 worth of guns, gun mounts, recoils and tank armor to the British, has a $37,000,000 munitions backlog, and last month got an $18-20,000,000 contract from the Maritime Commission for a dozen 10,000-ton "Victory" ships. It has 3,000 employes and will soon have 4,000 more. There is not a dollar of U.S. Government or even public money in the whole capital structure...
...triple-ply ribbon for pioneer excellence in the crucial art of sub contracting has long been worn by instrument-making Sperry Corp., which has been at it since 1936. Of Sperry's $250,000,000 backlog, almost all defense orders, 50% (in man-hours) is farmed out to more than a thousand firms. Half of these companies and 35% of the man-hours represent pure subcontracting (as distinguished from normal purchases from vendors). This week Sperry President Thomas A. Morgan described Sperry's subcontracting methods, gave some pointers that Floyd Odium's Defense Contract Distribution Service might...