Word: bottleneck
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Army Air Force Reservists become liable for active duty on leaving college, but probably won't be called out for some months as their departure is entirely a matter of the training bottleneck in the Air Force...
Communications. There has been a bottleneck in communications from French North Africa. Messages are sent to the U.S. via London. In peacetime the channels were sufficient; war overloaded them. The Army, starved for communications of its own, could not provide extra facilities for newsmen. Because military messages always have rightful priority, correspondents' dispatches have had to wait and the correspondents have been limited to 200 words nightly...
Once again the fox was in flight. For three weeks, while General Sir Bernard Law Montgomery cautiously poked at him, Erwin Rommel had crouched in the bottleneck of El Aghéila, holed up. Montgomery had been in no hurry to attack. He had had to bring up supplies across the 700 miles of desert which Rommel had already covered in his retreat from El Alamein. Until he was ready, he had kept Rommel in a state of nervousness with jabs of armored cars and tanks. First clue to his readiness came last week. Heavy artillery began to bellow from...
...again. Mudholes were drying up. Allied planes once more were in the air over Rommel's thinning columns, over El Agheila and over Tripoli. The question still was whether he could organize his haggard, battered Afrika Korps for a stand at the El Agheila bottleneck. Rommel might yet earn even more distinction...
Moreover, Yerex' request for a license coincides with: 1) a Caribbean transport bottleneck so severe as to make it hard for CAB to turn down any airline equipped to fly there (and also hard for Pan Am to continue claiming that it could handle the job all alone); 2) a backlog of U.S. Army as well as South American good will for rush jobs he has been doing...