Word: bottlenecks
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Bids will be advertised this week for construction of an underpass at the Larz Anderson Bridge on Soldiers Field Road, designed to relieve a traffic bottleneck...
...processing of Republican job seekers. Basically, this means careful clearance with Congressmen and state political bosses before making appointments. Sherman Adams, crusty, hard-working ex-governor of New Hampshire, at first often overlooked this clearance. Then, when the squawks began, he grew so cautious that his office became a bottleneck. Another sore point among state and local partymen: the tendency of eager new Republican bureau heads to hurry the hiring of subordinates, thus bypassing patronage channels...
...production was in peacetime goods which the U.S. could afford to do without. The U.S. got 4,300,-ooo new autos, although only 3,000,000 had been scheduled for production. But out of 12,000 military aircraft called for, only 9,000 were completed. Sample bottleneck: for lack of a small electronic part, engines could not be delivered to North American Aviation and powerless Sabre jets had to be lined up in long rows outside the plant. War production fell so far behind schedule that the schedules themselves were cut during the year so as to lower the peak...
...Linz and climbed into his bottle. It was a huge, steel-framed affair, seven feet tall. Taking with him an air mattress, a camp stool and two Syrian snakes "for company," Rudolph entered one side of the bottle. Then arc welders sealed him in, leaving only an 8-in. bottleneck open at the top. For the next year, Rudolph plans to live in bottled luxury on vitamin pills and write his memoirs. And if no one comes to see him? Well, he can always go back to the old grind-nailing his tongue to a board...
...days of his long reign, Ibn Saud's Moslem subjects were as dry as the sands they lived on, for such is the law of the Koran. Then the infidels came to tap the oil, and brought with them the other liquid. Soon the clink of glass against bottleneck began to be heard in the new man-made oases of the Saudi Arabian desert...