Word: bottlenecks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...begins to look as if there will be no place in Cambridge for G.I. Joe College and his family next fall. Each week the number of unfilled housing applications at the office in Straus Hall jumps closer to the estimated 2500 that will confront University officials by September. The bottleneck has been predicted for many months; the Housing office has scoured a Cambridge already crowded to the saturation point; the Alumni have been asked to help, and the University has achieved near miracles on a shoe-string investment. But the fact remains that unless the University administration matches talk with...
...desperation methods such as Quonset huts are to be avoided, the Corporation must take stock of its own abilities to break the bottleneck. University lands are available; great portions of Soldiers Field He idle and could be utilized during the emergency. The fields close to the Business School would provide ideal sites if drained along the methods established by the University in establishing land for the government units. And it might well to remembered that Tech expects to get no less than 65 percent of its money back in rents, plus a small amount in serap value from its Westgate...
...theater is strangled in a bottleneck . . . made up of a group of men who are hired to report the events of our stage and who more and more are acquiring powers which, as a group, they are not qualified to exercise-either by their training or their taste. . . . No opposition point of view is ever expressed. There is a blackout of all taste except the taste of these...
Samovars & Doorknobs. One major bottleneck is trained industrial manpower. Russia lost millions of her best workers in the war, and the 5,000,000 or so German prisoners and draftees have the inadequacies of all slave labor. Said one disgruntled Soviet factory director: "When we brought a German who said he was a diesel specialist to a diesel engine that needed repair, he would then say he was a marine diesel specialist. . . . Phooey, they are useless...
...Trains, No Planes. There were new things to talk about. In San Francisco, a ship that had recently been carrying G.I.s sailed for Argentina with a load of pleasure-bound passengers and commercial cargo. Overtaxed transportation facilities in the U.S. had become a bottleneck. Forty-six Army nurses arrived in San Antonio after a harrowing three-day trip on a troop train from California, sharing two chair cars with G.I.s. One day's food ration was a piece of bread and jelly and a small portion of stew. Half the time their cars had no water. ("Our washroom simply...