Word: bottlenecks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Moreover, Yerex' request for a license coincides with: 1) a Caribbean transport bottleneck so severe as to make it hard for CAB to turn down any airline equipped to fly there (and also hard for Pan Am to continue claiming that it could handle the job all alone); 2) a backlog of U.S. Army as well as South American good will for rush jobs he has been doing...
...Plymouth Rock. The Japs and Nazis had cut the U.S. off from only a few more or less exotic foodstuffs. (Examples: caviar, anchovies, patée de fois gras.) Thus, with reason, all over the land the U.S. housewife and her menfolk were beginning to ask: How come a bottleneck in the middle of a horn of plenty? But there was no one bottleneck. There were nine...
Last week the war song bottleneck appeared to be broken. Three were going great guns...
...Bombs fell night & day. Night & day men and women worked, unloading ships. One afternoon a bottleneck developed at one of the docks. A bomb had wrecked both derricks. Just after dark a Red Army company marched up, faces drawn. All night they worked, officers and men. In the morning the ship was unloaded and the company fell in and was taken back to the front, about 30 miles away. Their 24-hour leave for rest was ended...
...hard to guess. Batcheller as president of Allegheny-Ludlum Steel Corp. is head of a company that is relatively small in the steel industry but one of the biggest companies in the realm of alloy steel. As an expert in alloy steelmaking he is invaluable, for in the steel bottleneck the real choke is in alloy steels (for armor plate and many a vital part in war machines). The Government now wishes that it had taken his advice two years ago, when he foresaw the raw-material shortages now plaguing the U.S. Then he urged stocking up on nickel, chrome...