Word: repairable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...answer to these challenges, the British made every effort to contain German attacks. The Germans were wearing themselves down. The British wanted to keep them from new supply and repair sources...
...people of the Moscow area number more than 8,000,000. They constitute an unprecedented labor army, which can be, and has been, rushed to every threatened sector, there to construct cement fortlets, dig bunkers, repair breaches and sow mines as prodigally as wheat...
...Fish glue is used in sizing and general repair work. Nobody quite knows what sizing is. When people are asked if they wish to have some sizing done, they generally say yes. And it goes on the bill...
Some firms contracting to repair blitzed houses were found to be charging ten times fair prices. One contractor asked ?50 for labor cost on a repair job for which the material cost only...
...cruising radius of less than 2,000 miles, to steam the more than 4,000 miles from Yokohama to our West Coast, and then back again to Japan, it would have to take a large number of slow, highly vulnerable supply ships for the purpose of refueling and repair. With our Pacific Fleet in Pearl Harbor this could never be done, since the auxiliary ships would fall easy prey to American guns. The same holds true for an American attack on Japan. It is 3,394 miles from Honolulu to Yokohama, but the cruising radius of our fleet (the distance...