Word: repairable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That is still not all. Serious and minor damages keep about 1,000,000 tons constantly in shipyards under repair or waiting for facilities. About one-quarter of this tonnage is damaged by the ordinary hazards of navigation and depreciation; the rest is Nazi damage. An important part of the damaged tonnage is also bottlenecked because the shipyards are so urgently trying to build new ships, both naval and merchant...
...years ago the famed Natchez Pilgrimages began. There are 40-odd fine old homes in varied stages of repair and restoration within six miles of Natchez, and at the low point of the Depression, Southern homeowners discovered that visitors were still willing to pay a fee to inspect them. In no time the Pilgrimage was an institution. Each spring pretty girls in hoop skirts and pantalettes flounced over the pavements, rode about in carriages that quaintly messed up traffic. (By unwritten law, males who dressed up one year were let off the next.) For $2 a visitor could...
...Bluf Peninsula twelve miles southwest of Corpus Christi, Tex. on the Gulf of Mexico, was once an old camp site where Indians buried their dead. Then it became the favorite hunting, fishing, and picnic grounds of Corpus Christians. Last week the scrub oak peninsula brislted with shiny white hangars, repair shops, buildings of all descriptions. In bright new classrooms, 52 pink-cheeked, khaki-clad youths got their initial instruction. Seventy-five more were due thi week. The U. S. Navy's biggest air station (70% completed) was open 16 months ahead of the original schedule, two in three years...
...Navy's $44,000,000 station, when it is completed next June, will have some 500 buildings, a 17-care assembly & repair shop, a 6,300-ft. seawall, 24 miles of roads a 39-mile railroad, swimming pool, clubroombs, hospitals, barracks, and cabanas along the Gulf shore. It will also have a veteran Navy man for commandant: genial, blue-eyed, imperturbable Captain Alva D. Bernhard, until recently in command of the Aircraft Scouting Force. A third larger than Pensacola, the 4.658-acre air station is not one base but four-three of them fully equipped flying fields within...
...register on April 5 for labor service (others up to 45 will register later). On April 19 British females aged 20 (girls of 21 will also follow) must do the same. To speed up the process of getting more people to work in munitions factories, shipyards, mines and upon repair of bombed areas, Laborite Bevin urged that 100,000 young women volunteer at once...