Word: bottlenecked
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...Bottleneck. In Horsham, England, police were making little progress in solving a burglary until they put some extra men on the case to help Police Sergeant William J. Wykes, got results when Wykes was arrested as the culprit...
...cause of the trouble was twofold: television sales had fallen off; the tube bottleneck had been broken, and manufacturers could now turn out more sets as well as pass on some of the savings of mass production. Some 70 new stations are scheduled to go on the air this year, and eastern and midwestern networks are to be linked this month, so the industry's prospects are by no means gloomy. But could the 2,000,000 sets which manufacturers hope to turn out in 1949 be sold at current high prices? Admiral's Siragusa said...
...bottleneck has resulted, Dean Watson explained, adding that the 20 men now remaining in the gym are temporarily stalemated there...
...bottleneck in emptying the gym, the associate dean revealed, has been that House residents who have been picked to take in upperclass residents from the Yard and other dormitories, have been allowed to volunteer for additional roommates...
...happy tennis fan, looking at the new courts waiting to be played on and remembering last year's bottleneck, mused, "Hmmm. If they put in a couple of more of those, there'll almost be enough to go around...