Word: repairable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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According to the Consumers' Aid report, Snell, who operates independently although under the roof of the Gulf Super-service Station on Boylston Street, failed adequately to repair, and even in some particulars further damaged, the car which Miss "Not-Mechanically-minded" brought to his shop when she heard a peculiar noise emitting from under the hood...
...genius for getting action at weak spots, Sam Robinson brought the mam moth construction program-biggest ever undertaken-to the point where every major shipyard, except those deliberately set aside for naval repair work, was building some kind of Navy craft...
Speed was why Todd and Kaiser got together in the first place. When the British in 1940 handed Todd a $100,000,000 rush order for 60 freighters, Todd was already working overtime on its repair business, needed new ways to build the ships. Kaiser, rapid-fire builder of Boulder, Bonneville and Grand Coulee dams, was the man they needed-and got. He worked 16-hour days, borrowed whirler cranes and other machinery from Grand Coulee, pounded between California and Washington commuter-fashion. Four months after Kaiser started, bleak mud flats were lofty ways. In January-13 months after...
First aid, elementary engine repair, and convoy driving are the principal subjects that the drivers have pursued. Special emphasis has been put on the convoy training, in an effort to increase the speed and efficiency with which the graduates can form and maintain a column in long-distance driving...
Vice Premier Admiral Jean Franqois Darlan announced last week that the 26,500-ton battleship Dunkerque had put into the French Mediterranean naval base of Toulon under her own power. Even after 18 months of repair work at Oran, where she was blasted at anchor by the British Fleet (TIME, Sept. 16, 1940), the Dunkerque is still too battered for active service. But Nazi Germany knows, as do Vichyfrance and the U.S., that eleven French cruisers are in European or African waters, handy for immediate action, that the Dunkerque's sister ship Strasbourg is fit & ready, that the balance...