Word: bottleneck
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...make his final sprint." The synthetic production program has succeeded, he said, and "our production capacity is now so great that we have been able to lend some synthetic rubber manufacturing facilities to provide extra quantities of high-octane gasoline. . . ." Then he pointed his finger at the present bottleneck: the lack of manpower and equipment in making heavy-duty tires...
...words to describe action. Says he: "The whole thing doesn't come through a radio. If you turn the radio on full blast in a live-walled room, something of the sound is there. But try as I will, you can never get it. Your throat becomes a bottleneck and the words jell in your mouth." Even so, his warcasting is the best to date...
Under the new policy, plants with 100 or fewer employes (50 in labor-tight West Coast areas) may now resume manufacturing civilian goods in unlimited quantities, whenever they wind up their war contracts. As the civilian supply bottleneck is less the result of material shortages than of lack of facilities and manpower, this change will produce a small bonanza of farm equipment, household goods (e.g., irons, baby carriages) and textiles (children's and infants' clothes). More important, the new policy underlined a significant fact: WPB has at last taken a firm stand against Army & Navy demand for "everything...
...Torpedo gyros are now plentiful, but ball bearings are a bottleneck for the entire naval ordnance program...
Here is the grim ground where last week, in their third great attempt, the Allies again failed to crack the bottleneck in the road to Rome...