Word: repairable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...warships sent into action, only two escaped without hurt: the 34 that limped home, broken and smoking, would clog their repair yards for months while U.S. planes hammered at them to put them out of business for keeps...
...built and implemented. By last week one of its secret-wrapped bases was far enough in the rear for the Navy to feel safe in unwrapping it. The base was Manus in the Admiralty Islands, more than 6,000 miles southwest of San Francisco, a key supply and repair point for the Philippine invasion...
Tropical diseases and heat took a heavy toll. Rain turned roads and storage dumps into bogs. But in five months, with 16,000 men working eight-hour shifts around the clock seven days a week, they built a base to supply, repair and maintain a naval fleet on the southern flank of the Japanese Empire...
Along the highway are blocks of warehouses for storing spare parts; machine shops with facilities to repair or install medium-caliber guns ; an automotive over haul plant which recovers thousands of vehicles from the scrap heap; acres of tank farms (depots); acres of under ground ammunition storage depots; refrigerators for meat, vegetables, fruit to supply the fleet. Now abuilding is a bottling plant with a capacity of 500 cases of soft drinks an hour...
Glamor Goes. The process had already begun. World War II had deglamorized the gypsies, forced them into an activity they had successfully avoided for centuries-work. Under the National Service Act, gypsy poachers now make camouflage nets, gypsy tinkers repair copper vessels in jam factories, knife grinders shape metals, basket weavers wire eiectrical equipment for aircraft. While gypsy women (heretofore the traditional gypsy breadwinners) earn good money in war plants, their work-scorning menfolk bear arms or log wood pulp in Britain's forests...