Word: bottleneck
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Eight Hours at Sea. Howe's impatience led him into a dangerous spot in late 1940. When war orders were delayed by the reluctance of British firms to release patent rights, Howe sailed for Britain on the liner Western Prince to break the bottleneck. In the North Sea the ship was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine. One of Howe's chief aides, Gordon Scott, was killed at his side. Howe and other survivors drifted for eight hours in a lifeboat before being rescued. At the dockside in Britain, a newsman asked Howe whether his whole life...
...till year's end did the Pentagon finally draw up a priority list of weapons and component parts-the thousand & one supply items which had become another major bottleneck holding up the final assembly of weapons...
...Meanwhile, in his second report to the nation, U.S. Mobilization Boss Charles E. Wilson said the biggest defense-production bottleneck...
Scarcely three months ago, the worst bottleneck in the defense production program was machine tools. But by last week, machine-tool makers had gotten, in rapid succession, super-priorities on metals and tools, the authority to reach far & wide for labor, and a 12% price boost. As a result, they were well launched on a 400% production expansion...
...broke the bottleneck was Clay Bedford, 48, a production-engineering expert on loan from Kaiser-Frazer Corp. Charlie Wilson brought him to Washington last May (at no salary) as his production troubleshooter, because he knew that Clay Bedford was the production brain behind just about every one of Kaiser's most spectacular projects...