Word: bottlenecks
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...census to get more defense orders (its seven big factories had only $3,000,000 worth), thus to stave off priorities unemployment. In the process it resurrected the fact that the U.S. is a land of skills, and that there is more than one way to break a bottleneck...
With British reports putting some British units far south of Bengasi, Rommel seemed to be facing disaster. His only outlet for the forces caught on the Barca Plateau is Bengasi. Under bombing and shelling from the sea, the port may become a jagged-edged bottleneck. This week the British began increasing their aerial activity against Axis Libyan ports. They hoped they were entering the last round of the Ritchie-Rommel fight-to-a-finish...
...problem: how to lick the process by which: 1) Congress appropriates billions of dollars; 2) the Army & Navy swish through paper slips of orders; 3) manufacturers hang the orders on a hook, unable to get the plants, tools, materials and manpower to make the stuff. Most immediate, most terrifying bottleneck, bobbing up like a cork released under water: machine tools. This was the bottleneck of 1940 and 1941, was still guaranteed to last through at least three months...
Today 1040's tight machine-tool bottleneck is being broken...
These amazing, interrelated economies have made welding the greatest bottleneck smasher in U.S. shipbuilding. Welding is being used wherever possible, but some riveting still goes on. Reason: shortage of welders, and the existence of riveting skills and equipment which it is not yet wise to junk. In 1918 some 16% of a ship yard's personnel were riveters. Today the average is about...