Word: fixings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Navy had indeed decided to fix up the Wyoming, mainly by mounting more anti-aircraft guns on her and increasing the gun crews' protection against air attack. But the immediate object was only to make the Wyoming a better training ship. A more significant sign of the Navy's need and worry was work under way at Norfolk on three other old battlewagons: New York, Texas, Arkansas. The 14-inch guns on the New York and Texas, the 12-inch guns on the Arkansas cannot fire more than 20,000 yards, with this insufficient range would be helpless...
This news brought out two commentaries on recent naval history and the current state of the naval mind. When the Navy proposed to fix up the New York, Texas and Arkansas several years ago, the British objected that naval treaties (since lapsed) prohibited the changes. The British now would be happy to have the battleships ready for duty...
...animal caravan down the Mongolian desert to China, 3,700 miles in all from Vladivostok to Chungking. Links in the route were not exactly new; their origins as a pack trail predated Marco Polo, Genghis Khan and the mighty Chin. About three years ago the Chinese began to fix up the road, stringing repair shops, gasoline dumps and food stations across the tundra...
...performance of her new departure into drama. Waltzing to Paradise or making love with handsome kinky-haired Dennis Morgan, she throws in a whopping supply of spirited romance. As a brokenhearted wife or the mother of a dead child, she plunges her scenes into deep tragedy. Kitty Foyle should fix an even more permanent place for Ginger in the hearts of her feminine fans...
...railroads insisted they could handle any traffic load the defense boom might produce. When Burlington's Ralph Budd joined the Defense Advisory Commission, he did not seem worried either. In July, when traffic had risen to over 700,000 carloadings a week. Commissioner Budd urged the roads to fix up their bad-order cars, keep them below 6%. The Administration wanted him to force orders for 100,000 new cars at once, 500,000 by 1942. Mr. Budd preferred not to interfere with rail managements...