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What's the Trouble? The biggest defense-production bottleneck is a shortage of electronic equipment. Major items, from planes to heavy artillery, have been set back and are still being set back because of a short supply of such electronic gear as bomb sights, zero landing systems and gun-laying equipment for airplanes, tanks, ships and artillery. Defense officials are constantly being asked: Why are so many television sets being made, and why all the fiddling with color television if electronic supplies and technicians are needed? The answer, which satisfies few hearers, is that a factory making television sets...
...Congressmen watched the heavy ore boat traffic through Sault Ste. Marie. Then they cruised on the Canadian icebreaker Ernest Lapointe through part of the 120-mile bottleneck preventing similar navigation past the St. Lawrence rapids below Ogdensburg, N.Y. Even with fuel and ballast reduced to cut her draft, the Ernest Lapointe could barely squeeze through the antiquated existing locks. The Congressmen also noted that even now the river is busy with small boat commerce-evidence of potential Canadian profits if Ottawa carries out its threat to build the seaway alone. At Barnhart Island (once a rum-runners' hideaway), they...
...even supply reasonable protection in a cold one. In the past year, production has not even doubled. In 1951, it will not exceed 5,000 planes (about the 1939 rate) v. World War II's peak of 96,318 (see chart). Engines are the bottleneck, and there are two main reasons: shortages of machine tools and of critical metals (cobalt, columbium and tungsten). Moreover, engines are so much bigger and more complicated than World War II's that it takes more time, more skill and three times more labor to build them...
...Bottlenecks Ahead. Airframe production cannot be stepped up until the bottleneck is broken in electronic equipment and engines. Last week, United Aircraft Corp. was spreading out over 1,000,000 square feet of extra floor space to expand engine production. But President H. M. Homer warned: "There is no miracle that can be substituted for time." At best, United and other engine makers can triple their production this year-and the airframe makers are hitched to that schedule. Fairchild is making only eight of its cargo-carrying Cng "Flying Boxcars" a month, could produce 20 if it could get engines...
...rest, he ruled by bottleneck. Reform bills were killed or emasculated in committee. So many died in the Judiciary Committee that it came to be known as "the Morgue." Immigration control, income tax, tariff revision and currency reform were strangled or mangled beyond recognition. "Not one cent for scenery," snorted Cannon when his own party proposed forest conservation...