Word: repairable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...December, when he was summoned to Washington to be COMINCH of all the fleets, "Betty" Stark was doing his limited best as OPNAV. The Utah and the Arizona gaped from their graves at Oahu, ships slightly more fortunate were being readied for removal and repair, and bombed planes still made ugly piles on the Army fields. The Japs were closing on Manila, hacking away the last Army air forces in the Philippines; MacArthur was looking to Corregidor and Bataan, and Admiral Hart's Asiatic "Fleet" of cruisers and destroyers was on its way to glory and futility...
...seven destroyers. U.S. losses might eventually prove to be more severe. Certainly damage must have been great. The San Francisco had most of her bridge blown away by the braid-killing salvo of 14-in. shells. Other ships undoubtedly took similar unannounced damage which will take time to repair. But the Japs suffered damage...
...success very largely to Germany and Italy. Their political philosophies and totalitarian methods coincided. But last week Axis sentiment was being subordinated to tough expediency. Internally, Spain was a caldron. Thousands were starving. Eighty food products were strictly rationed, including, nearly all staples. Railroads and roads were in bad repair. The country needed oil, grain, machinery, rolling stock-obtainable from...
During the last 50 years doctors have found it almost impossible to repair nerves which have been cut, especially when a section of nerve has been torn away. Chief difficulty has been to bind the severed nerve ends or grafts together: even the finest needles and threads (e.g., blood vessel sutures) lacerate the nerve bundles. Researchers at Oxford in 1940 discarded stitching and used a glue made of chick plasma to bind severed nerves together...
...listening railroad men knew that they could do it only if they got some badly needed locomotives, cars and the materials they must have to repair their hard-pounded equipment and rights...