Word: repairable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President's appointment of Bronx Boss Ed Flynn as Ambassador to Australia had turned out, during his absence, to be the worst political boomerang he had tossed since the Supreme Court fight. It was too late to repair the damage: the President would be busy for months erasing the memory of the mistake...
...Field 25 miles east of Phoenix. This succeeded right off the bat -Southwest was on its way. To handle the Army's stepped-up pilot program Hayward expanded the original civilian school and built Thunderbird Field II. To overhaul training planes and engines he set up a big repair depot. To haul high-priority military cargo he started an airline over a censored Pacific Coast route. Meanwhile Southwest trained thousands of pilots (27 nationalities but mostly U.S., British and Chinese), expanded its staff time & again...
...bombers also struck more immediately at the U-boats. Twice last week the R.A.F. raided Lorient, plastered the repair shops that U.S. Flying Fortresses and Liberators had left standing, and rained blockbusters on the huge U-boat pens. Whether they succeeded in getting through the 11-ft. concrete roofs and walls of the pens, the R.A.F. did not say. But they had slowed up work that Germany dearly wants to finish. A third pen of like capacity (ten U-boats) is being built nearby. Neither the R.A.F. nor the U.S.'s Eighth Air Force had any intention of letting...
...Manned by both R.A.F. and U.S. crews, they swirled over the Continent from dawn to dark; on one day 400 of them were on the loose. They hacked at light industrial establishments, shot up railroad trains, left locomotives steaming from their sides and ready for a tow to the repair shops...
American film audiences should feel obliged to nominate Leon Gordon's resurrection of "White Cargo" in movie form as one of the year's foremost blunders. Although a well-handled advertising campaign may give this production large box office receipts, it can do little to repair the damage done to the acting prestige of Walter Pidgeon, Richard Carlson, and Hedy Lamarr. These three are the victims of a plot and setting as hackneyed as any the film industry has seen...