Word: bottlenecks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nearly 20% of Bessemer steel capacity was idle last week. Bessemer converters use almost no scrap, but they are indirectly affected, since the scrap shortage has put such a load on pig iron that pig iron is now a bottleneck...
Nelson decentralized his staff, turned production over mostly to the Army & Navy, set up a new all-important committee to feed the war machine with raw materials, keep the present lines moving at top speed. To move the produce and to get around the shipping bottleneck, WPB worked toward a huge new fleet of air transports. Now 1943 and 1944 were far away and 1945 was never...
...auction block, outbid giant Pennsylvania R.R. by paying $1,300,000 ($130,000 in cash). T.P. & W. hardly seemed a bargain, but it had one big asset: over its 239 miles of track (between Effner, Ind. and Keokuk, Iowa) transcontinental freight can save days by dodging the Chicago terminal bottleneck. McNear got to work and within 45 days the long-bankrupt road was making money. It has made money ever since. Last year it earned a neat $365,000 on $2,775,000 revenue...
...Bottleneck. Last night I stood on the Ava bridge beside two Scottish lads, Royal Bombay Sappers and Miners, who were ready to plunge a stick that would set off 2,000 lb. of explosives and wreck the second largest bridge in the Far East across the Irrawaddy River. British 25-pounders, manned by Indians, were hurling shells in the direction of Mandalay, which has been burning since April 4th and is overrun with dacoits and traitors who are shooting at the Chinese garrison in the darkness through the completely flattened ruins of a city of onetime 120,000 population, where...
Though lack of housing still threatens to be a serious bottleneck in war production, the U.S. at least is doing better than in World War I, when labor turnover in some areas ran as high as 1,000% a year because of the housing shortage and the Government began building so late that most of its houses were not finished until after the Armistice was signed. Now the Government is engaged in a $1,052,000,000 program, building 414,000 homes for workers' families. But only a third have been completed. Private builders are supposed to be building...