Word: repairable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Germans had other nuisance value to thank, as well: the Vichy Fleet in the Mediterranean and the French African ports. By German naval standards, Vichy's was still an imposing force: five battleships under varied stages of repair or building, four heavy and seven light cruisers, some 40 destroyers, some 60 submarines. As the Nazis were well aware, Vichy's fleet was potentially of much greater than nuisance value; it could become a terrifying addition to the Axis naval might...
...have to be built out of the inventories in car builders' hands and in railroad-owned shops. This may be tantamount to no new cars at all, unless most of the 18,000 are of wood construction for the appallingly low in ventories remaining must be conserved for repair work, to keep existing rolling stock in service...
...follow the action by listening to the U.S. planes' radio. The Jap put up no fight, except from his antiaircraft, launched not a single plane. Marcus, important as a Jap supply base and link between Japan and the Mandates, got a pounding that should take weeks to repair...
...During the week he wrote the 48 State Governors asking them to conserve rubber by limiting maximum road speeds of all motor vehicles to 40 miles per hour, and to require frequent checking of tires for possible repair and retreading. Reason: the nation's tires on its 30,000,000 vehicles must last as long as possible...
...valves had to be ground,--took the automobile to an expert Lincoln-Zephyr mechanic for examination when Snell had finally finished with it. Here it was revealed, the report stated, that the cylinder heads had been seriously scarred when Snell's men pried them off, and that the repair shop had unsuccessfully attempted to conceal the effects of this damage by placing excess gasket-maker between the heads and the engine block...