Word: repairable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Subject to more criticism than a socialist at a Lincoln Day dinner, the University Maintenance Department does the best possible job supplying the demands of administrators, faculty, and students. In days of constantly rising labor and material costs, an agency designed to provide day in and day out repair while answering any and all emergency calls cannot please the faculty or administrative department with a College-limited budget; or the student activity group which must make its unsubsidized books balance...
...Tihua, Gruin and Colin-Ho set about interviewing everybody who could help unravel the Sinkiang story. Most of their informants were as effusively evasive as the stocky Russian manager of Tihua's Sino-Soviet airport who said he wanted no pictures taken because "the airport is in bad repair and it would give a bad impression if printed in the magazine." After considerable argument Gruin was allowed to take two shots, carefully outlined before snapping. Then, for a firsthand view of the area where Chinese and Mongolian troops had been having a border fracas, they trucked across the gravel...
...They multiplied normally by splitting in two, a solitary process. Then Dr. Tatum bombarded some of them with X rays and ultraviolet light. This damaged their insides. The metabolic cripples could still multiply by division (when coddled), but Dr. Tatum hoped that offended nature would somehow force them to repair their deficiencies...
...they will no longer shoot straight. . . . They have excellent American artillery but are so short of ammunition that they cannot fire a single practice shot. Their trucks are for the most part broken down and, as we did not carry out our contract to deliver spare parts, they cannot repair them. They have not a single airplane even for reconnaissance since we did not carry out our promise to put through the Eight and One Third Air Group program. By persuading the Chinese Government to adopt American equipment and then refusing ammunition, we have put these soldiers...
...third story of a burning building. The stairs were on fire, so they had to take it through a window. . . . In their haste they knocked down gas pipes, tore holes in water lines and upset the electric wiring. They got the safe out, but left a lot of repair work to be done...