Word: bottlenecks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...daily) is well ahead of schedule, will go into production, operated by Du Pont, in April. And the third, at Childersburg, Ala., will be ready to turn out smokeless powder at the rate of 300,000 Ib. by midsummer. No matter what unforeseen delays might do later, one critical bottleneck was cracked, would soon break. By autumn, the Army and Navy would have a wartime powder supply...
...were the part of the report the President had skipped. First "if" was pig iron. Pig output must be increased by 1,675,000 tons in 1941-42. Second "if" was coke: its output, already a bottleneck, must be increased by 8,031,000 tons. Third "if" was allocation of orders: maximum production, said Dunn, can be reached only if orders are spread evenly throughout the industry. Fourth "if" was a shift back to Bessemer steel: little-used old Bessemer ovens should be put to making steel for barbed wire, nails, low-grade pipe...
...Propellers, not engines, will provide the bottleneck in the horsepower race. While military motors may conceivably double in horsepower, a propeller reaching sonic speed (750 m.p.h.) is shackled by a destructive drag. Many predict that jet propulsion (as in "rocket ships") will be required for airplane performance over 500 m.p.h...
When last week began, the U. S. was worried about a bottleneck in magnesium -a metal invaluable, since it is one-third lighter than even aluminum, for lightweight airplane parts. At week's end the bottleneck was smashed. The way it was smashed was a lesson in speed. To a nation which needs speed above all else, it was proof that time is no obstacle to men of energy and purpose...
...publicity director, Wild hopes to assume coaching duties openly as Dick Harlow's most trusted adviser. Harlow has expressed unusual interest in a new defense of Wild's which he calls the "bottleneck secondary...