Word: bottleneck
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...candidates themselves showed the gulf between them most clearly one night last week. In what some men thought his greatest speech, Franklin Roosevelt orated mellowly of hemisphere defense and freedom of the seas, while Wendell Willkie bellowed huskily about plant amortization as a bottleneck in the defense program. Not many of the 45,000,000 U. S. voters can define the word amortization, but even in far-off South America listeners could appreciate the President's vibrant "Viva la Democracia...
...other cloud was darker. Many of Detroit's key supply industries are already overworked. Can they continue to fill Defense and consumer needs simultaneously? One narrowing bottleneck is pig iron (TIME, Sept. 23) which Detroit needs for its iron foundries. Another is the foundries themselves, which are being rushed with Defense orders. Still another is the rundown old cotton & woolen textile industry, a large auto supplier which is getting huge orders from Army & Navy. (Already Washington is quietly discouraging Detroit from ordering its wool too far in advance.) Another, vital to makers of accessories, is the zinc industry...
...these contracts, only $80,000,000 worth still remained to be awarded last week by the Army & Navy. The orders: Aircraft. With a weather eye on the way Air Marshal Goring's Luftwaffe was tearing up tactics books in Europe, Bill Knudsen tackled aircraft (the "one big bottleneck") first. The President had cried for 50,000 planes. That was an impossible figure. Knudsen set his sights for a target of 35,000-25,000 for the Army, 10,000 for the Navy. By last week he had ordered 10,096 planes (fighters, bombers, trainers, observation, transport), had mailed letters...
...head winds" had forced Pan American Airways to stop at Bermuda on all of the last six westbound transatlantic crossings. As all U. S.-European mail is carried by the Export Line or by Pan American, Bermuda last week had become a definite mail control point-sometimes a bottleneck...
...publicity device, the Bottlenecks investigation got off to a bad start. Talking carelessly to reporters, Arnold produced huge headlines, vague stories about defense-hindering control of U. S. patent users by the German firm of Krupp. He had designs on a number of industries in which foreign patent tie-ups were said to be restricting U. S. production, among them magnesium, whose chief producer, Dow Chemical Co., has built an independent U. S. magnesium industry (using sea water as ore) from its own smart research. Arnold also got off a phrase about "economic fifth columnists" which he later tried...