Word: lagged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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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...
Exchanges Lag...
...Punch style than anything else in the issue, though a poem on queues is also amusing. The play reviews, especially a report of a new musical comedy by Mr. T. S. Eliot called, "The First Serpent," are the best actual parody in the magazine; the cinema and book columns lag far behind their British counterparts...
...circulation (187,369) and advertising (20,521,756 lines for the first eleven months of 1950) still lag behind the round-the-clock Times-Herald (circ. 275,314, advertising, 21,042,854 lines) and the conservative, workmanlike afternoon Star (circ. 223,547, advertising 34,039,026 lines...
...hour-a-day factories, its censorship and brownouts, its ration books and black markets. Partly, this reflected some of the lingering doubts inside Harry Truman's own Administration on the wisdom of a total commitment now to a garrison state. Partly, the apparent caution merely recognized the inevitable lag between intent and performance. With Charlie Wilson on the job, more rigors and more vigor could be expected. On performance, not alone on words, would the U.S. be able to judge how well Harry Truman and the rest of the nation understood the urgency of his own words: "The future...