Word: repairable
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...were doing what they could with what they had-and it was no mean bomb tonnage. The R.A.F. Bomber Command threw its big punches at night. It hurled a great 600-plane raid at Kassel (locomotives, aircraft, engines), ranged 900 miles northeast to Gdynia to strike at submarines under repair. Another night it was over Nürnberg (diesel engines for submarines, planes, tanks) and the steel center at Saarbrücken. Again it was an airdrome in Belgium, docks at Ostend, power stations in the Lille and Lens areas. U.S. Flying Fortresses made their seventh continental raid, proving...
...cars, predicted that the motors would soon shake themselves to pieces; the transmission and rear end would eventually break down from the unnatural pulsation of the drive shaft; the pumping action of the unused pistons would jam the dead cylinders with incompressible oil. Instead of being a minor repair job, Sun's plan, they thought, would mean factory rebuilding-taking out the unused pistons and connecting rods, putting in new manifolds. The mildest criticism was that, using the Sun system, it is impossible to go slower than 18 m.p.h. in high gear. Best opinion to date...
...well is a deep, narrow, steel-lined hole in the ground. To destroy a well permanently, the steel casing must be damaged beyond repair, the shaft hopelessly plugged, or the oil supply itself dissipated. Anything else is temporary-fires can be put out, pumps and surface apparatus replaced...
...Victoria Cross, highest British military medal, for gallantry against the Nazis. Beattie's feat: skippering the destroyer Campbeltown into St.-Nazaire during the war's biggest Commando raid (TIME, April 6), ramming his ship's nose against drydock gates to plug the important German-held repair yards. During hand-to-hand fighting before the British withdrew, Beattie and a number of other Commando-men were captured, have languished since in a prison camp. One of them, Lieut. Colonel Augustus Charles Newman, in a regular installment of his Barbed Wire Diary to his wife, last week told...
...island officials: ?24 each annually for the Secretary and Postmaster, ?1 each monthly for prison wardens and wardresses (when required). Any family "which keeps more than four breeding she-goats" is subject to fines up to ten shillings. All males between 16 and 60 may be drafted to help repair and man public boats or act as public traders "when called upon by the island committee to do so." Anyone under 21 "who shall smoke tobacco in any form whatever" is liable to fines...