Word: repairable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...young boys ought to be kept out of harm's way, a veteran father said, "Hell, if there are bombs dropping, you won't be able to keep the kids indoors anyway.") A man from the gas company feelingly urged his fellow wardens not to attempt any repair jobs on broken gas-mains, etc., but to send for him-"and for God's sake don't monkey with any loose wires...
...Other damage ranged from "ships which have already been repaired, and are ready for sea, or which have gone to sea, to a few ships which will take from a week to several months to repair." In the last category Secretary Knox placed the battle ship Oklahoma, launched March 23, 1914, which capsized...
...apparently because of the good work of interceptor squadrons which met the Japanese about 40 miles north of Manila. But during the first night the Japanese swept in, set fire to gasoline dumps beside Nichols Field, bombed the fort of Corregidor (but not seriously), socked naval drydocks and repair shops. The Japanese aim was reported to be un canny: few non-military buildings were...
...carefully planned reconnaissance system failed, few civilians could tell when the blow was struck. But the important thing thereafter was that the lifeline had been cut between Pearl Harbor and Manila. It was even possible that its anchor had lost a great part of its effectiveness as a supply-repair base and reserve fortress for the fleet in the Pacific. And if that were true, the loss would be greater than the loss in warships, immeasurably greater in its implications than the wreckage of planes at Hickam Field...
...second lesson concerned recovery. The decisive factor in last week's fighting was the rapidity and efficiency of German field supply, and particularly repair. It was this which had made it possible for General Erwin Rommel to recover so quickly from the first pounding his forces took, then to seize the initiative before the British had caught their second wind...