Word: repairable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even the fabled ski jump at Woburn, Massachusetts has seen a goodly share of action this year, in pleasant contrast to last year's total of two practices after many hours of work had been sunk into its repair...
...rebels had dynamited the Bourazani bridge across the rain-swollen Aoos River, apparently the only avenue of relief (see map). When Greek army engineers tried to repair the bridge, they were dispersed by rebel shells from high ground to the north...
...Pier F in Jersey City, dock workers were loading 26 big cases, marked "Used Industrial Machinery," into the American Export Lines' Executor. The twelfth case slipped from the loading fork, crashed six feet to the concrete floor, and split open. Trying to repair the case, cooper Raymond Grimm found inside a package holding 50 one-lb. tins of TNT. They were labeled "U.S. Corps of Engineers-TNT-For Front Line Demolition Only." Customs men opened 25 other cases, found a total of 65,000 lbs. of TNT. Later in a warehouse in The Bronx, New York City police found...
...Passengers needed little selling. The practically smokeless diesels provide a cleaner, smoother ride than steam. And railroads found that the high initial cost of diesels (the $600,000 is twice that of a steam engine) is offset by more efficient use of fuel, fewer layups, lower repair costs and less roadbed damage...
Even if the association can impose a code of fair practices on the rest of New York City's 4,000-odd repairmen, there are still 91 other U.S. cities of more than 100,000, where the public is probably getting the same sort of "repair service" that Radio Daily found in Manhattan...