Word: repairable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...indicted a doctor charged with the Christmas-Day murder of a mother of two. Brown has gathered as witnesses former customers whose names San Francisco newspapers have promised to withhold. He is also setting traps for "respectable" doctors who send their patients to the abortion milla or do unreported "repair work" after complications...
...former Army mechanics who did not feel they could support their war brides on the salaries offered to them last week decided to risk their meager savings in a repair shop. Their motto: "We tackle anything." Principals in the firm: ex-Staff Sergeant Skeezix Wallet, and his friend Wilmer Bobble of Frank O. King's famed comic strip Gasoline Alley. In their first week, Wallet & Bobble spent most of their time repairing Christmas tree lights. Total take...
...House subcommittee report, just out, gives an eleven-point program for improving artificial devices and smoothing the way for their purchase and repair...
...were hailed as liberators who were bringing with us the blessings of democracy. On the whole we are now taken to be moral slobs, mental deficients, and fools; and if Europeans now seek to milk us, we have only "Our Boys" to blame. It will take years to repair the widespread distrust of the U.S. produced, not by bombs or diplomatic deals, but by our half-educated, doltish youth...
...attempt to penetrate the depths of Germany with unescorted bombers, the costliest example of which was the Oct. 14, 1943 raid on the Schweinfurt ballbearing plants. General Henry Arnold claimed at the time that the results were worth the cost (60 heavy bombers destroyed, many damaged beyond repair), but the survey found "no evidence that the attacks on the ballbearing industry had any measurable effect on essential war production...