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...engines to go into new Army pursuit ships. By the middle of the summer the production of the three plants in military engines may well hit a total of close to 2,000 a month, end fears which Army and Navy men entertained that engine production might become a bottleneck in U. S. armament...
Meanwhile economists,who had been looking to shipbuilding to absorb thousands upon thousands of unemployed workers, began ast week to single out the shipbuilding industry as one of the tightest bottlenecks in he way of further advances in production. They noted that, whereas the bottleneck in steel (TIME, Oct. 2) might slow down an unhealthy scramble for unneeded steel, a bottleneck in shipbuilding would certainly slow down one of the key capital goods industries they have been relying on to take steel off the market-if Congress decides that the U. S. does need ships...
...line) type, and even such mills were held down to the pace of old-fashioned brass foundries integrated with them. Meanwhile, war orders piled up at the same time as ordinary post-Labor Day orders from the auto companies, who want prompt delivery and plenty of it. This brass bottleneck caused copper sales to lag, particularly because brass manufacturers bought far ahead last May (TIME, May 15); and England, willing enough to buy processed brass, is not wasting her precious foreign exchange buying U. S. raw copper for her own mills, when she can obtain it from South Africa...
...years of most revolutionary machine tool engineering advance; 67.3% were bought before 1928, are covered with technological cobwebs. Although machine tools make mass production possible, machine tool building is itself a long-drawn-out, artisan-like process, taking up to two years in specialized cases. To make this bottleneck worse, machine-tool builders are mostly small family concerns, with their own problems of obsolescence, and not too much capital available for expansion. But regular customers, foreign and domestic arms makers and U. S. arsenals all want tools...
...only three U. S. factories: Pratt & Whitney (at East Hartford, Conn.) and Wright (at Paterson, N. J.), which produce radial, air-cooled engines, and General Motors Corp.'s Allison Engineering Co. (Indianapolis), which is just getting into production on liquid-cooled inline motors. If there is ever a bottleneck in the production of aircraft for war it will be in the compact engine business, but last week it did not appear close. For Pratt & Whitney and Wright had finished their expansions for wartime business, were operating at no more than 70% of capacity and finding no trouble getting workmen...