Word: repairable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Told how the Arabs are bribed to go along the pipeline, dig a hole, build a fire and when the pipe gets hot, shoot a hole. The geyser of oil catches fire. The British-French-American oil people have airport and hospital stockades every 60 miles - send out repair men by airplane and fix the fire hole within two or three hours. Bill cruised every foot of Iraq with a Kurdish interpreter and 16 Arabs-got interested in Biblical lore, measured the marks left by Noah's flood, reconstructed the story of the ark. Says Noah was a pitch...
Bindery officials are perfectly willing to admit, moreover, that some of the Treasure Room books they repair are worth more than all the gold in the building, which is located on Memorial Drive beyond both Dunster House and the Maintenance Department, In some cases the insured value of individual volumes has approximated that of the entire Bindery...
...reason was that although Winston Churchill's days & nights are filled with the problems of Britain's fighting forces, as Prime Minister he is also responsible for Britain's whole wartime economy and for repairing both the human and material damage of Germany's continuous air attack on the British Isles. It is a staggering responsibility, and Winston Churchill is a human being, not an Atlas. Britain's production of war materiel has lagged behind expectations; the one great exception is airplanes. Britain's transport facilities have been faulty, with slow unloading and turnaround...
Seats. In Denver, Highway Police Supervisor Joseph Marsa, faced with the fact that the department had no money to repair the force's thinning trouser seats, said his men might soon be forced to "call politely out of the car window to traffic violators...
...other things which the U.S. can do, some of which President Roosevelt has already planned, or done. He has already seized 290,000 tons (equivalent to three weeks' sinkings) of Italian, German and Danish vessels. These might be turned over to Britain, but it would take time to repair sabotage and devise juridical excuses. He has opened the Red Sea to U.S. shipping, but it would take time for ships to get there. He has assigned $500,000,000 under the Lend-Lease Act for the construction of 212 new quickly built "ugly ducklings" and other vessels...