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...Fighter-plane slippage runs from 10% to 25%; medium and heavy bombers are closer to schedule. The military plane production future is cloudy: shortfalls of machine tools presage an almost certain three-to six-month lag in late fall or winter...
...holding up news of the German offensive at the Battle of the Bulge." Blamed, yes, by those who did not know that in Allen's pocket there was an order from Lieut. General Walter Bedell Smith, Chief of Staff of SHAEF, saying in substance, "there will be a lag of 48 hours in all news given about our positions during this situation...
...industry knows, is far behind schedule. Output is more than 20% below the targets, and planemakers will have a hard time reaching even the modest goal of 5,000 planes this year. Last week Mobilization Boss Charlie Wilson moved to crack the defense program's biggest lag (out of every defense dollar to be spent in the next year, 48? is earmarked for aircraft). He set up a board of top brass from civilian and Defense Department agencies with sweeping powers to rev up U.S. aircraft production...
Many other titles go out of stock a few days after they arrive--George Orwell's "1984" has been selling at a brisk pace. Westerns and most detective stories lag-far behind...
Since the "lead time" for engines (i.e., the lag between orders and actual production) is more than a year, there is an absolute limit on boosting production. The U.S. did,not start its emergency production soon enough. Fred Rentschler uses the industry's famous "rule of three" yardstick: from the moment all-out production begins, the existing rate can only be tripled in the first year. In the second year, the new rate can be seven times the original; not until the end of the third year are there no limits except manpower and materials...