Word: repairable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Navy's vast rockets program and ship-repair work have been jeopardized by shortages of manpower. Merchant shipbuilding, with its notoriously high labor turnover, will always be in a critical state while labor is free to go where it pleases. High priority programs on the Army list which are also feeling the labor pinch are small-arms ammunition, tanks, tires, cotton duck, mines, smelters, basic metal fabrications-all industries involving hard and dirty work, mostly at low pay and therefore unpopular with U.S. workers...
...About Time. In Santa Fe, N. Mex., Ora Stumpff desperately sued a jeweler for embezzlement in a final attempt to get back his watch, which had been on the repair shelf for 23 months...
Building of carriers and cruisers has been delayed as much as nine months. Other "critical" items which will run short unless more workers turn to: rockets, high-capacity ammunition, 40-mm. guns, aircraft, repair parts, dry cells, radar, wire and wire rope...
Only a few days before, Reporter Cowan had gone coasting with his own two children, Jimmy, 4, and Nadine, 7, near the scene of the accident, and the sled had broken under his weight. Last week the broken sled was still in the repair shop. Said Father Cowan: "I think I'll leave it there...
...Sack. At Fort Lewis, Wash., Pfc. Sol Katz, back from leave in The Bronx, reported that he had lost his watch when a jewelry repair store was robbed, his uniform when the cleaners burned down, one of his medals to a thief on the train, his garrison cap, which he left in the baggage rack; found that he had returned from furlough a day early...