Word: bottlenecks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reply] in person. . . . Can be in Washington Friday morning. . . . Would thank you to let me know time to be at your office." The President sent an ultimatum. George McNear sent back a 77-page collect telegram, refusing to arbitrate. The President thereupon seized the railroad, cracked an important transportation bottleneck around Chicago...
...This bottleneck would require much more drastic rationing than is yet in prospect, if the railroads had not come to the rescue.* Year ago the rails hauled practically no oil to the Atlantic Seaboard and last October they hauled only 141,000 bbl. a day. Last week they hauled 435,000 bbl. daily-a new all-time record and 40% above the rosiest estimates...
...tight bottleneck in Army contracts was the custom among Army procurement men of giving orders to the lowest bidder. Nelson told procurement officers hereafter to negotiate all contracts, place orders where they will get quickest action...
...president or chairman.) 2) It is a dead-end airline, and Pan Am would like to keep it that way. It begins & ends in South America (see map p. 50), connects with the lush U.S. market only through Pan Am. Today, ten weekly Panagra flights in & out of Cristobal bottleneck into six Pan Am flights direct to or from Miami. But if a Panagra passenger has plenty of time and likes to fly, he can -leave Cristobal via Pan Am's frequent Central American or Venezuelan flights. From an operating standpoint, Panagra's toughest problem is that...
...that ro more steel strip is needed to make automobile bodies and fenders, it will be used to ease the bottleneck on steel plate for shipbuilding. Strip steel can be rolled as thick as ¼ in., and two or more thicknesses can be used where extra strength is needed. With the ten wide continuous strip mills thus converted, plate production could be stepped up from 526,000 tons a month to around 830,000 tons...