Word: bottlenecks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week a new potential bottleneck loomed on the defense horizon : 'U. S. businessmen. At the top, where there is no second shift, the pressure was mounting. It was not a uniform pressure; only managers with defense orders felt it seriously, bankers and salesmen still got to the club or the first tee on time. But all over the U. S., high-pressure spots were multiplying. Presidents and general managers canceled trips to Palm Beach, ate lunch and dinner at their desks. Wives fretted. Doctors warned. But still U. S. businessmen came early and left late...
...hope for the South in booms like that at Birmingham, Ala., whose steel mills were still operating at 100% capacity last week and expanding too (TIME, Nov. 25). Tennessee Coal, Iron & Railroad Co. will soon make 140-inch plate (for shipbuilding) for the first time. To crack a coke bottleneck, T. C. I. has built 73 new ovens. The Sloss-Sheffield Steel & Iron Co. planned to reopen 87 old beehive ovens unused for over 20 years...
...landing party did get ashore there, it would have to fight its way across the rugged Santa Cruz range. A landing on the Luzon panhandle from the south or east would be equally difficult, because the invaders would have to fight their way through to the narrow bottleneck of Tayabas...
...economist, but the No. 1 U. S. humanitarian, put this butter bottleneck on this week's front pages. At the annual meeting of the National Public Housing Conference, Eleanor Roosevelt stated that the U. S.'s new housing problem had become too much for local authorities. "I think it is quite true," she added, "that in tne long run all housing is defense housing. . . . Not only is housing inadequate, but schools and hospitals must also be provided. We are going to have to be a nuisance about these questions if we are going to be fair to people...
...meet this serious situation, C. I. O. headquarters last week demanded a national prefabricated housing program. C. I. O. intimated that A. F. of L. building unions have created a bottleneck of skilled building labor; declared that prefabrication, using unskilled labor to assemble the houses, is the quickest way around it. In San Diego. 3,000 houses are planned for aircraft workers. But San Diego is already building at the rate of 2,400 houses a year. The local skilled-labor supply (says C. I. O.) cannot do both the normal and emergency jobs at once...