Word: repairable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...aptitude and the time to complete more than preliminary training in physics and engineering before becoming eligible for the draft. Many of them have seen their wartime places as radio operators, technicians, mechanics, too late. Yet with basic, elementary instruction they can qualify as specialists in communication and repair. No amount of theoretical physics can teach these men their skills now; what they need are practical courses in the operation of tools and machinery, or in the transmission of Morse code and in the fundamentals of communication apparatus...
...University now offers no training of this kind. The Psychological Laboratory is sponsoring a course in Continental code; a neighboring high school presents an evening course in the repair of airplane engines. But these are not of University calibre. The former, primarily designed as a psychological experiment, gives only skeleton instruction that does not touch on the mechanics of radio. The latter is so informal that the school authorities themselves admit its value is questionable...
...high hopes. That was last June. It took two and a half months to patch her under water, blow her free of water and mud. No sooner had she bobbed to the surface than an engine-room explosion settled her back into the ooze again. An explosion in the repair launch alongside her did not add to the efficiency of the salvage crew, which had been in a constant tizzy anyway for fear of being torpedoed themselves...
...wield electric irons having glass sole plates. Glass plumbing for private homes may be around the corner. Industrial glass plumbing is already here to stay. Recent developments include easy-to-use glass-welding gadgets so simple that ordinary maintenance employes in the U.S. food industry can be trained to repair and even to install glass plumbing. The U.S. fisherman who uses cork or aluminum floats for his nets is about to switch to U.S. floats of pressed glass or Foamglas...
...boards of the Network continued to put their music, talks, and news resumes into a dead mike, until the Network went off the air at its official closing time of 11 o'clock. At the end of the evening, the harassed technicians and announcers gave up the job of repair for the night...