Word: bottleneck
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...production - is now apparently just another busted bottleneck. This big news was the meaning of many little items of seemingly unrelated news last week...
...last September Boeing Aircraft's Flying Fortress production was lagging badly for lack of 9,000 workers. That was the payoff: Army, Navy, WPB, WMC, industry, labor et al. publicly and simultaneously converged on the manpower bottleneck. They all worked on the "West Coast" for job priorities and allocation...
...also knew that he had successfully pulled U.S. production through. Said he: the big job is done; went back to General Electric. Also resigning : Hiland G. Batcheller, WPB operational vice chairman (back to Allegheny -Ludlum Steel Corp.). W. B. Murphy, WPB deputy production vice chairman and Wilson's "bottleneck buster" (back to Campbell Soup...
Sample of the Tangle. Looking forward from a Fifth Army regimental O.P. (observation post), the men could see their problem ahead-mountain ridges converging to a bottleneck, and in the bottleneck two obstructions, a bare rocky spine and a round wooded knoll. These hills squeezed Highway No. 6 into a horseshoe before it could straighten out on its way to Cassino and Rome, 90 miles away. Infantrymen named the hills "Old Baldy" and "The Fat One," and got ready to take them...
...standing in the chow line for some time before he realized that the line wasn't moving at all. While he was puzzling over this in his usual diffuse and disorganized manner, he observed Cpl. E. L. McDonald straggling out of the dining hall and asked what the bottleneck might be. "Oh, nothing much," replied the raconteur of Ruthruff and Ryan, "They're just having a little trouble making the horse lie still...