Word: outputs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...production rate of 40 to 60% of nominal capacity, output can easily be sped up or slowed down. But to speed up much beyond 60% of capacity, time and money must be spent sweeping spider webs out of high-cost idle factories, oil and repairs have to be lavished on obsolete machinery. At such times as the present, orders can be delivered no faster than the economic assembly line is able to move through U. S. industry's many tight spots and bottlenecks...
...shortage of iron. At Buffalo last week Bethlehem Steel blew in its old No. 2 blast furnace. One blast furnace, last relined in 1919, was put in service. Rush orders for refractory brick to reline steel and iron furnaces made Pittsburgh's Harbison-Walker Refractories Co. jump output from 35% to 75 to 80% of capacity and go to work widening its own bottlenecks. Each advance in operations uncovered new weak spots-in soaking pits for semi-finished ingots; in blooming mills preparing ingots for the rolls; in rolls, coilers, shears, handling machinery...
Germany won an iron & steel industry with an annual output of 2,000,000 tons; some zinc mines (annual production 191,500 tons); and a rich agricultural region producing wheat, rye, barley, oats, potatoes, sugar beets...
...industries had production crises: i.e., Chicago's Rand McNally map makers were busy 24 hours a day and all hands worked overtime. Reason: production in ten days of what would normally be ten years' output, 1,500,000 maps of Europe. Rand McNally's entire stock of European maps was sold out 24 hours after German troops invaded Poland...
...past six months David Colony has also organized St. Luke's Towel Co. (80 stockholder-employes), whose entire output is taken by a New York jobber; Hulby Hosiery Corp. (33 employe-owners) and Colony-Sharp Carpet Co. (75 workers), in whose organization the Rev. William Sharp of nearby St. Paul's joined...