Word: repairable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Aircraft Repair and Storage Depots: Severe damage to two of the largest depots-Méaulte and Romilly-sur-Seine; heavy damage to repair shops at Antwerp, Brussels, Le Bourget, Meulan-les-Mureaux, Nantes; considerable damage to the Gnôme-et-Rhône plant at Le Mans; light damage to Paris' Hispano-Suiza plant, destruction to Paris' Caudron Renault shop; Villacoublay was marked "most severe...
Last Word. In the welter of rumor, one explanation floated to the top. The explanation: Hudson and the Navy had bickered over Navy's intent to shift the arsenal away from mass production and to turn it into a gigantic repair shop and manufacturer of "custom-built" Navy products. According to this version the Navy had highhandedly settled the argument by its Commando raid...
Germany's economy already was squeezed and strained. The British Ministry of Economic Warfare estimates that total German industrial production was down 20% since 1942; that no attempt has been made to repair the damage done to a large number of high-priority targets in Germany by the Allied aerial pounding. German stocks & bonds, even on the regimented market, were in acute decline. Food was just sufficient to prolong life and sustain work; the clothing ration for civilians was completely suspended on Aug. 1; the coal ration this year will be 70% of the 1941 allowance-and in that...
...Philosopher Benedetto Croce, who had told an American correspondent in southern Italy that the Royal Family was "ignoble." Said Carlo Sforza: "The greatest mistake of Allied policy is to support the discredited House of Savoy. An attempt by the Allies to force the monarchy on the nation, or to repair its prestige, will cause resentment and future trouble...
...morning last week the cloud cover over northwest Germany thundered. Over the port of Emden a "pathfinder" squadron of Fortresses eased down from the overcast, planted incendiaries. Flames burst from Emden's factories, clocks, submarine repair shops...