Word: reconditioners
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Until the U.S. could recondition one of Japan's infamous prison camps, the Yokohama jail was the only safe lodging for war criminals. The Yokohama jail was clean and unbombed, but it would be only large enough for the first batch.
To conduct this enlarged recondition- ing program, the Army has built extensive facilities at its new Camp Edwards base. Several playing fields, an enclosed sports arena, a swimming pool, and 16 remedial gymnasiums are among the many features of the new plant. This base serves only casualties from the First...
Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr., cousin of Alfred, chatted of his widowed mother in Script magazine: "Mother is back in town after a month at Hot Springs, Va., where she went to recondition her 'pump' and her 'plumbing.' ... I thought she looked better before going there."
For the Navy, convicts make submarine nets; make or recondition buoys; repair hundreds of shoes; do laundry. They are making 300,000 Navy pillowcases, 40,000 mattress covers, have turned out 10,000 Navy cafeteria trays and only await metal to turn out 100,000. The prison's furniture...
Since 1923, a U.S. Naval mission has been helping Brazil recondition its antiquated navy. It has two 19,000-ton battleships, built in 1908 and 1909 but now modernized, two cruisers of the same vintage, nine destroyers, four comparatively modern Italian-built submarines, eight minelayers, two minesweepers, some 15 auxiliaries...