Word: bottleneck
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...Bell Telephone engineer. They meandered into a movie before driving out to the Bell man's suburban house. Next day, satisfied that they had shaken off any possible spies, they turned up at the Bell Laboratories with the supersecret device that broke the radar bottleneck. The Briton, a member of a radar mission to the U.S., brought designs anda model of an electronic tube called the "magnetron...
...long as war orders have to be met the 'bottleneck' problem will persist. There will be shortages of ... raw materials . . . of one component or another ... of key machines. There will be labor bottlenecks. . . . The task of breaking down these bottlenecks in our complex industrial organization is not insurmountable, but we are now learning that it is difficult and timeconsuming...
Recognizing that democracy demands the participation of an informed and intelligent electorate, the Committee urges on the U. S. Community a forceful program of postschool education but sees as "the bottleneck of adult education programs" a shortage of skillful human experts...
Thus in 518 A.D., the Chinese poet, Po Chui, expressed his alarm at the roaring Yangtze gorges in Central China, the bottleneck through which the waters of the 3,000-mile-Iong river pour out of the Szechwan basin and Tibetan foothills onto the flat paddies of China's rice bowl. Then as now, the enormous power of the Yangtze ran wild in floodtime while the Chinese shrugged ia resignation. Even now, damming the Yangtze is a bigger job than China can cope with...
...week's end, nobody would predict how long this unexpected good-fellowship would last, or how far it could be extended over the rest of the country. But the production bottleneck was broken...