Word: bottleneck
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Last week the Army's capable Corps of Engineers proudly showed newsmen that it had broken a bottleneck in one of the odds & ends of national defense. The bottleneck was critical: there was a shortage of 60-in. reflectors for anti-aircraft searchlights. So the Engineers turned to and built their own reflector plant...
Today, with pig iron a potential defense bottleneck, the air-conditioning boys expect a better hearing. Air-conditioning a furnace takes only three to four months...
...hell since '31 and '32 trying to lick a depression, get experience, get established, to climb the ladder . . . yet we gladly chuck it all to serve our country. Now, some of the boys are declaring strikes over petty arguments or small wage increases and in so doing bottleneck industry which makes possible a well-equipped Army...
...Aluminum Co. and Reynolds Metals: production equipment for widening the aluminum bottleneck...
...daily) is well ahead of schedule, will go into production, operated by Du Pont, in April. And the third, at Childersburg, Ala., will be ready to turn out smokeless powder at the rate of 300,000 Ib. by midsummer. No matter what unforeseen delays might do later, one critical bottleneck was cracked, would soon break. By autumn, the Army and Navy would have a wartime powder supply...