Word: bottleneck
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...free to begin building, steel will not be wanted. When it is wanted-about 50,000 tons of plain steel and 34,000 tons of armor plate for the 24 ships-it will be only a drop in the ocean. As a market for steel, shipbuilding is a bottleneck due to limited capacity. In 1938, operating at the highest rate since the War, the industry was able to use slightly over 300,000 tons of steel, about 1.65% of 1938's low steel consumption...
...find some tangible trace of the battle. Last week they reported success-spears, arrows and other weapons, crusted with rust after lying 2,419 years where the warriors of Thermopylae dropped them. They were buried in silt deposited by the River Spercheius, which has enlarged the pass from a bottleneck 14 yards wide to an alluvial plain one and one-half to three miles across...
...week made their main push along the strategic Lunghai east-west railroad, which at Chengchow connects with the Peking-Hankow line (see map). Fortnight ago, retreating Chinese turned and drove an advance column of 10,000 Japanese, under famed little Lieutenant General Kenji Doihara, "Lawrence of Manchuria," into a bottleneck area between the broad Yellow River and the railway. For nine days Chinese forces, often behind providential screens of swirling yellow dust, charged at the Japanese ranks, attempted to wipe out the 10,000. Finally Japanese reinforcements forded the river from the north under artillery bombardment, helped Japan...
...Nazi Vienna was a tight bottleneck for Central European news. Correspondents in Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Rumania, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Greece kept Vienna bureaus of the great press organizations primed. Thence the news of Central Europe-much of it brewed by good imaginations in Viennese coffeehouses- flowed out to the world comparatively free of censorship...
...Guadalajara is forcing upon Franco consideration of the question whether insurgent strategy in whole or in part must be revised. Il Duce's legionnaires were chewed up worse than is gen erally known. Their defeat resulted in the failure of the Easter Offensive which aimed at closing the bottleneck exit from Madrid...