Word: bottlenecks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...happy tennis fan, looking at the new courts waiting to be played on and remembering last year's bottleneck, mused, "Hmmm. If they put in a couple of more of those, there'll almost be enough to go around...
...industry plans to improve and expand production facilities one-third by a $4 billion investment. But Jersey's Holman pointed out last week that steel was still the big bottleneck. Steel is needed for casings for new wells, for new refineries, for pipelines and for tank cars to haul the product. Until that bottleneck is cracked, the U.S. will have to make do with present production...
Nobody had the answer: already stevedores' wages were better than those paid in other ports of Colombia. As for the cargo bottleneck, it will be eased only when the single track railway and the unpaved highway leading into the interior are improved, and so far no plans are afoot for the work...
...deputy Lend-Lease expediter, Douglas hustled off to London, in a few weeks discovered where the bottleneck was. For lack of shipping, war material was piling up at ports and warehouses in the U.S. Douglas came back to Washington as economic adviser to the War Shipping Administration, later as deputy. He worked out a system of cargo allocations and ship routings that soon cracked the bottleneck. In 1944, with the plaudits of shipping men and the "warm regards" of Franklin Roosevelt, Douglas decided the job was done...
Williams cited two factors as the chief obstacles in the way of drama in this country: the high cost of production, and what he termed the "Broadway bottleneck." He contrasted his newest play and its $100 thousand expenses to what a similar production would cost in Europe--$5 thousand...