Word: bottleneck
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bottlenecks and priorities made any timely aid to Russia seem unlikely. The first bottleneck is shipping across the Pacific, the second, rail transport across Siberia. And on all the war material that can be diverted from U.S. defense Britain and China now have priorities. One possible step would be to exempt Russia from the President's order last fortnight freezing the funds in the U.S. of all European nations...
...Transport bottleneck...
...greatest of all the bottlenecks in Washington," said Pundit Walter Lippmann last week, "is the bottleneck at the White House...
...Even after substantial capacity expansions had been planned, its March estimate was an 800,000-kilowatt shortage next year. Now even more power-consuming aluminum plants are planned for defense (see p. 20). Droughts or no droughts, it looked last week as if the next big defense bottleneck might be power...
...months the U.S. has been heading towards a transport bottleneck. Last week it was just around the corner-and so, as a result, were gasolineless Sundays. A transport shortage complicated older bottlenecks, notably steel. It also created new bottlenecks in commodities of which the U.S. still has a surplus-notably...