Word: bottlenecks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...total scheduled for 1942 (8,000,000 tons) is more than twice as much as the U.S. built in its best World War I year (1919). By May U.S. ship yards will average two launchings a day. That will not be enough: ships will still be the No. 1 bottleneck...
...great straits which bottleneck the seas, only two remain exclusively under Allied control. Both are man-made straits. The Suez Canal serves to keep the Axis Navies apart. The Panama Canal serves to keep the U.S. Navy together. The loss of both or either of those canals might give the combined enemy worldwide naval parity. Without naval supremacy, expeditionary forces stay home...
Jones, accused of being a bottleneck, needed an expediter and got a good one. Expansion-minded Clare Francis had long preached more production for the U.S., practiced it at General Foods. Back in 1935 he said: "We need to raze thousands of antiquated factories . . . rebuild, modernize." Now that the U.S. is rebuilding, Clare Francis' job is to see that nothing delays the job. Quartered near Jones's office in Washington, he no longer has time for the winter vacations he could take in his favorite Honolulu when he was preaching...
...machine-tool makers, first U.S. industry to be called a bottleneck, have worked like Sisyphus* to get out of that category. In two years they boosted their payrolls from 43,000 to 110,000 men, their deliveries from $200,000,000 to $840,000,000 (1939-41). By Pearl Harbor they had reached a delivery rate of $100,000,000 of machine tools every month...
...bottleneck had come uncorked with the departure of Winston Churchill for home, the President last week took the most important step in many a week by appointing a single war-production tsar, Donald M. Nelson. Letting loose a flow of energy, he also...