Word: bottlenecks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Navy's program is going fairly well because it got started in peacetime, but naval constructors now see harder days ahead. Competing for limited U.S. shipways are 661 seagoing commercial vessels. The machine-tool bottleneck caused by aircraft and ordnance speed-up is beginning to tighten on the Navy. Naval shipbuilders are expanding 50%, 100%, 200%. Said a worried admiral last week: "It won't be enough, I'm afraid." In morale, in guts and ability to fight with what they have, the Navy's officers and men cannot be excelled. The quality of its command...
Then, as last week, there was one bottleneck that really counted: the bottleneck at the White House. There was confusion, despair, individual convictions that less than enough had been planned or done. And there were men who looked at the facts, cried that those facts were all-that the war was already lost...
Under the defense program the machine-tool industry, famous at the start as the No. 1 bottleneck, has expanded production from $200,000,000 in 1939 to $450,000,000 last year, an estimated $750,000,000 this year. If this industry was still far from round-the-clock operations, other industries likely were still farther. Soon after the President's statement, the National Association of Manufacturers, which has surveyed 18,000 previously unstudied manufacturing plants, reported that the 434,159 machines in these plants were idle an average of 14 hours...
...less optimistic. In the machine-tool industry, more than 95% of employes have been working overtime: an average of 12½ hours a week. Since no employer would pay out that much overtime if he could help it, this was a sure sign that the long-expected labor bottleneck was now a potent fact. Immediately after the President's statement, Knudsen-Hillman asked industry workmen to substitute bonuses for vacations in defense plants this summer. Draft headquarters disclosed that the classification of skilled workmen would be re-examined and that some men already in the Army might be transferred...
...Henderson by the President's shipping pool. As combination price and supply commissioner, Henderson is the New Deal official closest to the job of finding sufficient transportation for all the freight diverted from canal to roadbed. The New Deal has long regarded rail capacity as a potential bottleneck...