Word: repairable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...case against the Minute Man radio shop is only one of a number which have been undertaken by the Student Council's special committee. Last year conclusive evidence was presented of the fraudulent practices of a small automobile repair shop on Boylston Street, which led to the conviction of its owner in the courts. Soon afterwards the concern went out of business, and its proprietor left Cambridge...
Although battleships suffered most, cruisers did not escape. The Honolulu, Helena and Raleigh were disabled. So were other vessels: the 8,100-ton repair ship Vestal, the new 8,625-ton seaplane tender Curtiss. The minelayer Oglala, with the destroyers Shaw, Cassin and Downes and the target ship Utah (a retired battleship) were reported lost in Secretary Knox's report...
...other battleships have been raised. The slightly damaged Pennsylvania, Maryland and Tennessee went back with the fleet months ago. So did the three cruisers, the seaplane tender and repair ship. The California, Nevada and West Virginia have been, or are being, repaired and outfitted with modern guns and machines. Even the destroyer Shaw, which did not seem to be worth 35?, was "sewed" together and sent to the U.S. mainland, where it was rebuilt. For the most remarkable salvage job in naval engineering history the U.S. could thank Captain Homer N. Wallin and the thousands of naval and civilian workers...
...Moscow, where the population has jumped from one million in 1920 to over four million today, housing conditions are further complicated by the abrupt wartime cessations of badly needed new residential buildings, by poor architectural planning and bad workmanship on some apartments, and by lack of materials to repair bomb-damaged windows and roofs...
...write news, editorials, advertisements, keep books, pay bills, read proof, clean type, set headlines, set news and editorials, pay bills, set jobs, feed press, cut paper, wrap bundles, solicit advertisements, solicit subscriptions, pay bills, repair presses and linotype (jackleg repairing), splice belts, saw metal cuts, pay bills, chisel cuts, make up newspaper, order supplies, tell people where the local draft board is, tell others where the town's lawyer might be, tell still others that silly rumor they were excited about was only a silly rumor, pay bills, wash forms, distribute type, solicit job printing, pacify irate subscribers whose...