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...great glee at having cracked the network front, ASCAP gave out that other networks could expect no better terms than Mutual's. B.M.I., the big chains' music mill, announced 33⅓% price reductions. Enthusiastic was ASCAP about the backlog of new red-white-blue tunes its composers have cooked up since January and will now spring on the patriotic radio public...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Back to Tin Pan Alley | 5/26/1941 | See Source »

Because of the foresight of its management, the bindery obtained before the war $10,500 worth of supplies, which is now in stock in the Memorial Drive building. Because of this extensive backlog, the Bindery will be practically self-sufficient for the next two years...

Author: By Dana REED ., | Title: Bindery Repairs 13 Miles of Books | 5/23/1941 | See Source »

...general boosts in excise taxes as much as to a general sales tax, they recommended whopping "selective" sales taxes on such commodities as automobiles (up to 20%), refrigerators, washing machines, which compete with defense industries for materials and workmen and machine tools. This would tend to build up a backlog of consumer needs for the years after the war. Meantime they proposed to let the lower-income group-its wages raised by the defense boom-have its fill of food and other goods which do not compete with defense products...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TAXATION: Guns v. Automobiles? | 5/19/1941 | See Source »

...gave them steel priorities, they could turn out another 40-45,000, or a total of 82-87,000 in the next year. Difficulties: 1) this would take steel away from other industries which need it; 2) Budd was talking about 100,000 cars over & above the present backlog...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RAILROADS: Change of Heart | 5/5/1941 | See Source »

Simultaneously FORTUNE gives a hand to the infant prodigy in which many of the war-wise lost faith last summer. It tells how the fastest expanding industry of all time increased its backlog to $3,200,000,000 in 1940 (see cut), up 3,900% in four years, and will have brought its personnel, 30,500 in 1938, up to 550,000 by Aug. 1- greater than last year's average in the steel or automobile industries. And if Detroit's assembly-line methods are barred to them, planemakers have a trick or two of their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Baedeker for the Air-Minded | 3/10/1941 | See Source »

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