Word: repair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with warm command and cold logic. In May 1944 he was hustled back to Washington as Assistant Deputy Chief of Naval Operations (Air), where he beat loud drums for the cause of naval aviation and produced the Radford Report, a skillful survey of the delivery, combat use, rotation, repair and relocation of aircraft. Brought back to the Pacific in November 1944, when Japanese naval forces were dwindling fast, Radford was appointed commander of Carrier Division 6 with Admiral Marc Mitscher's vast Task Force 58. There he pasted Japanese shore installations from the South China...
...their own time, Jessop's managers and workers alike pitched in for a year to lug away junk, paint cranes, repair roads, whitewash walls, mend roofs, hang office draperies-all led by Rackley in person. Only once did a tired worker complain, calling Rackley a phony. Equally tired, Rackley promptly punched the dissident in the nose. In admiration for his hard work and leadership, employees gave Rackley a $2,000 kitchen for his home last year, gather there for parties with the boss...
...time, but unlike most other activities the expenditure can not be spread out evenly through the year. When a production nears opening night, rehearsals get longer and more exhausting, sometimes lasting from six in the afternoon until two in the morning. As a result gaps which are difficult to repair appear in the school work of the student actors...
Partner's Promise. Ike well knew that the current drought was generally beyond the repair of a single storm, or even a single rainy season, that the time was late for local, state and national agencies to get to work on programs that would make the most of dwindling water resources, to reseed the millions of remaining acres of Great Plains grazing land that are ready to blow. At trip's end, addressing a special drought conference at McConnell Air Force Base in Wichita, Ike promised to ask Congress for $76 million for emergency drought relief (credit...
...Webster moved into Grand Central Terminal. 55 minutes late: "If this train had proceeded another five or six miles, I would have been a hero. But it didn't and I'm not." Later, as the damaged engine and two cars made their way to the repair shop, the devil had another go. One of the cars jumped the rails, blocked the tracks, held up 29 outbound trains up to half an hour...