Word: bottlenecks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rommel had pulled away almost intact, leaving behind a few Italianate droppings (the Eighth Army claimed only 8,000 prisoners, almost all Italian). The Axis armor had moved swiftly northward through the Gabes bottleneck, had settled down for at least a temporary stand at the Wadi el Akarit, a gulch about 16 miles north of Gabes...
According to the First Service Command, the greatest bottleneck in calling up the Air Corps reservists is inadequate training facilities. So far, this obstruction seems to be hitting the ground crews harder than the men who are going to fly. Men will be called according to how quickly this difficulty can be ironed...
...would earn Hitler some 1,800 miles of vulnerable coastline. Since most Spanish railways are broad gauge and already taxed for internal needs, it would give Hitler a logistical headache. But above all, it would disperse his forces to duplicate a job already being done at the Tunisia-Sicily bottleneck...
...Bottleneck. Rommel had met more resistance than he had apparently bargained for. His troops had become exhausted, overextended and overtaxed. The Eighth Army in the south was showing signs of opening its assault. And perhaps there was another explanation for the turnabout: Fredendall's young men had learned their lessons fast. Said Eisenhower of the U.S. troops: "All complacency has now been dropped...
Fact 3. Manufacturers of valves and boilers have not been able to keep up with the demand. They are increasing their output: by year's end component parts will probably be no problem. But today, and probably until June, these parts constitute a bottleneck which only time can break...