Word: bottlenecks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...friction bearings. To convert the whole car supply, as Sanders' ad urged, would cost well over $1,000,000,000 and take two-thirds of the whole U.S. 1940 output of alloy steel, which has plenty of other defense uses. Furthermore, road speed is not the chief railroad bottleneck. Freight cars average only two hours a day in transit; what slows them up is not their friction bearings but standing in terminals, loading, unloading and making up trains...
...Great Lakes area, which also depends heavily on water transportation for its coal, may be working itself and the railroads into a bottleneck. In the mad scramble for iron ore, Great Lakes ore boats, to save the five hours it takes to load coal, have been going back empty. If the Government requisitions any oil tankers from the Great Lakes (and there has been talk of it) the load on the railroads would be correspondingly increased...
...John David Biggers, whose Production division was directly responsible for many a bottleneck that could have been foreseen; who was accused of playing such swift back-&-forth politics within defense that he was widely known in Washington as "The Phantom...
...dock, the big, rosy-jowled face of Major General Edwin M. ("Pa") Watson bloomed suddenly over the rail. Stentoriously Pa whispered to White House Secretary Bill Hassett: press conference immediately. The wharf slip was cranked up to deck level; the horde of sweating, shoving newsmen belched through a bottleneck of broad-shouldered Secret Service men and Maine State troopers, poured through a hatch, clattered down the companionway's 20 steps, found themselves, a little embarrassed, suddenly before the President...
...heat is applied to the head by an electric riveting gun, the charge explodes at the other end, forms a "blind" head, sets the rivet. Explosive charges can be controlled to adjust the size and shape of the head to within .02 in. This breaks a major plane-building bottleneck: riveting points which can be reached from only one side. So troublesome have been these inaccessible points that plane designs have often been modified to avoid them, but there are still 800 in an all-metal pursuit ship, 10,000 in a large bomber. A skilled workman, with costly tools...