Word: bottlenecks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...brawling started even before the program, when the fifteen hundred or so spectators were caught in the bottleneck at the front door. It continued sporadically during the night, whenever the scheduled performers failed to show up on time...
...addition to workers in Europe, the Friends Service Committee maintains a staff of 60 men on the Burma Road where they drive ambulances and take vital supplies to Chinese Hospitals, as well as care for the wounded on the road. Two men also work at Libson, now the bottleneck for refugees, where thousands are stranded with no means of leaving, and another agent is being sent to Casablanca to do relief work among refugees there and among the workers on the new Sahara railroad...
...most commonly goes wrong. India has more than a million men under arms, mostly volunteers. Voluntary enlistment continues at the reported rate of fifty thousand a month. One-third of these soldiers are on fronts outside of India. As fighters they have given a good account of themselves. The bottleneck of Indian defense is not at the enlistment office, nor in the debates among parties: it is in the equipment. The picture of an India sleep-walking while her house burns is wholly false...
Once more the point had come where the controlling bottleneck in war deliveries was merchant shipping...
Most serious bottleneck was among subcontractors. Many hulls slid down the ways, then waited months for subcontractors to deliver propulsion machinery, ventilating & electrical equipment, pumps, the dozen-and-one other vital innards of a modern cargo vessel. The supply of steel had West Coast builders worried, too. Said a spokesman for the Kaiser yard: "They don't realize back East how much we need that steel. They don't realize how fast we can turn out ships in Portland...