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Show What Is a Bottleneck? We have come to know the bottleneck bottle-neck since we began frantically to arm ourselves last May. It is a point at which production is stalled. It may be lack of machine tools. It may be due to political interference. interfer-ence. It may be because of high taxes. It may be due to innumerable innumer-able other causes. The word bottleneck bottle-neck covers a multitude of deficiencies. deficien-cies. The bottle peculiar to our own situation has a corollary in the world picture. The Panama canal is a world bottleneck. So are Gibraltar, Gi-braltar, the Suez canal, the Dardanelles, Darda-nelles, the Burma road, Singapore, and the Straits of Dover. |