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...last week not a single Thunderbolt (except the "mock-up") had yet been delivered. Few weeks ago Major General "Hap" Arnold, Air Forces chief, dropped in at the Farmingdale, L.I. plant. He was so impressed by what he saw that the Army more than doubled Republic's backlog (to around...
...thing all planemakers showed plenty of: backlog. This now totals $5,500,000,000 for the industry, enough for three to five years of capacity operations at current production rates...
...worked well, showed an accuracy worthy of precision target guns.* After putting six years of intensive effort, $140,000 of his family's and investors' money into his inventions, he had at last hit the jackpot with $4,600,000 of orders on his books. This neat backlog consisted mostly of East Indian orders for rifles, machine guns and parts for several foreign makes, plus a small but promising Latin-American army order for Johnson rifles...
...cuts in appropriations, the Philippine Army is 75,000-Moros, Tagalogs and Igorots-a cross section of the Islands' population. Its reserve totals 50-75,000 more, all with five and a half months of MacArthur training. Its officers are young, for the Army was started with no backlog from an officer class. Most of them are trained in the Philippine Military Academy at Baguio, fathered by MacArthur on the pattern of West Point. Many a U.S. regular is doubtful of the Philippine Army's youngsters. Few armies in modern times have been developed so rapidly, with such...
...three months Hollywood's film factories have had not less than 40 feature pictures shooting, 60 in the process of editing every week. Their backlog of completed films has mounted to more than 85 pictures. This is a new high for sustained production in Hollywood. Big reason: on Sept. 1, five of the cinema industry's major studios (Warner Bros., Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 20th Century-Fox, Paramount, RKO-Radio) will begin distributing their product according to the terms of the Government's Consent Decree, which they signed last October (TIME...