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...rent board, which administers the city's comprehensive ordinances regulating rents and evictions, has drawn heavy criticism in its 10-year existence from landlords, tenants, and Cambridge elected officials for inefficiency. According to the commission's report, the board currently has a backlog of more than 300 cases, and half the cases take more than four months to process...
Healy said he is unsure how the rent board will attack the existing backlog. "The report is a little vague on that," he explained, adding that several hearing examiners might be assigned to only handle old cases. "But we don't want to have new cases defeating that effort...
...Cambridge Rent Control Board, which administers the regulations on rents and evictions in the city's tight housing market, has been the brunt of complaints by tenants, landlords, and city officials. According to the mayor's commission's report, the rent board currently has a backlog of more than 300 cases, and half of the cases take more than four months to process...
Once the defense buildup begins in earnest, this erosion of productive capacity will probably start to pinch. The backlog for aluminum forgings used in military aircraft is expected to swell from 12 months to 24 months by the end of 1982. The waiting time for aluminum powder and other components in rocket propellants, now ten to twelve months, is expected to grow longer. The delay in supplying integrated circuits used in computerized missile-guidance systems is already 80 weeks in some cases...
...crunch will be most acute for the small manufacturers who supply major contractors. Hans Weiss of Manchester, Conn., whose Dynamic Metal Products Co. welds machined engine parts for the F-15 Eagle and F-16 Fighting Falcon jet fighters, has a two-year backlog of orders. He warns, "If subcontract work on the B-1 bomber comes here, we just won't be able to take it on." Apex Machine Tool Co. in nearby Farmington, Conn., which makes fixtures and gauges for giant lathes and milling machines used in aircraft production, is already running at 100% capacity. Says President...