Word: overhauled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...aircraft carrier Leyte lay peacefully in her berth in a Boston navy yard, all but ready to go back to sea again. After four months (and two battle stars) in Korean waters, the "busiest ship in the fleet" had been in the yard for ten months for an extensive overhaul. Most of her 1,400 officers and men were aboard, and helmeted civilian workmen swarmed over her decks. Officers had just completed the weekly stem-to-stern inspection, had pronounced the "Leading Lady" (the crew's name for the Leyte) shipshape. Then, suddenly, the big ship shook...
Without a real overhaul, Sherlock Holmes will please only that elfin six-year-old who accompanies Wolcott Gibbs when he lightly pans a play. Simply the usual "polishing and tightening" which a Boston tryout promiscs will not prevent a waste of considerable talent, talent scarcely evident in the ragged performance on Monday night. With Basil Rathbone cast in his famous role, a script by Ouida Rathbone based faithfully though eclectically on five of Conan Doyle's best stories, and the rather curious but impressive attraction of Jarmila Novotna in the cast, it is hard to believe that the producers...
...Tools, overhaul, required to get the giant Abadan refinery back into full production: $30 to $40 million...
...plane production and the reduced Air Force flying program (TIME, Sept. 14). Another reason for the cut: jet engines have been improved to such an extent that not so many spare engines are needed. Air Force Secretary Harold Talbott explained that the flying time of a jet, without an overhaul, was originally estimated at 100 hours. But the new engines run for more than 250 hours. Said Defense Secretary Charles Wilson: "This is just like ordering a big beefsteak, a pound, and finding you only want a half-pound . . . Not knowing how hungry we might be for these spare engines...
...Secretary Dulles also told the lawyers that he will recommend some fundamental revisions in the U.N. charter, when it comes up for review in 1955. Suggested changes: 1) a strict atomic-age disarmament plan; 2) a broad change in the voting system, including an overhaul of the Great Power veto in the Security Council; 3) a written code of international law behind the charter, to which all nations would subscribe...