Word: repairable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rome, as a city of war industry, had aircraft, chemical and rayon factories, power plants, locomotive-repair yards...
...Washington the Navy announced the end of the Alchiba. But on the beach at Guadalcanal salvage crews pumped her out, patched her bulkheads, got her afloat. At a repair base, Seabees made her seaworthy enough to risk the 5,800-mile trip home. During that three-week voyage the sea sloshed in & out of the two holes in her, one 39 ft. across, the other 47. At a west coast shipyard engineers discovered that her keel was broken in two places...
Last Inspection. Weapons, too, were stripped down. A mobile gunsmith shop moved from building to building for speedy adjustment and repair of rifles, carbines, submachine guns and pistols. Ordnance officers make sure each man knows how to use his weapons...
...boot, it expands and contracts, the ice cracks off. But the addition of the rubber strip increases the wind drag on the plane, i.e., decreases its lift; the strip has to be taken off during the summer months to make it last even as long as two winters; repair jobs are frequently necessary on spots subject to severe strain. A ground check of the entire system is necessary every 50 hours...
Within six months 1,200 struggling firms had been reduced to 132 by means of a licensing system. Many of the firms left out in the cold converted to furniture repair, or became warehouses. The remainder are subsidized by a fund into which the functioning manufacturers pay 75% of the difference between their costs plus a profit allowance (6%) and the maximum fixed manufacturing price. (The other 25% is a bonus for efficiency...