Word: repairable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Alba Iulia, in what was left of Rumanian Transylvania, he brought stirring news to 100,000 cheering Guardists, soldiers and civilians. "I went to Berlin and Rome for Transylvanians," said Premier Antonescu, then quoted the Führer's answer: "On your shoulders rests the duty to repair and correct any injustice Rumania suffered...
Work undertaken would include the rehabilitation of farms, repair of buildings, and installation of improvements. The camp would also provide a flexible labor supply of hands to help in chores whenever extra help was required on nearby farms. A work superintendant, elected by the men, would have general charge of the camp...
...bombers from Greek bases soon followed up the Fleet Air Arm's work with an attack upon the naval dry-docks of Taranto. For it was not in Sir Andrew's mind to let the Italians repair their ships, in dock or by caisson work, as the Russians did after the Japanese opened the war on them with torpedoes in a snowstorm in 1904. The R. A. F. blasted the repair dock, and might be counted on, from its new bases in Crete, to complicate any and all salvage...
...important to the future welfare of China, this trade artery is impervious to attack from the air because of its clever construction and a ready supply of labor for repair work. Chinese engineers have built the many bridges so that only six hours are needed before shipments may pass after a bombing...
...added another 1,800,000 tons, comprising 589 ships (mostly antiques), to the five-to eight-million tons that have come into British control since war began. British ports are crowded with freighters waiting their turn-but so are Britain's shipyards crowded with tonnage under repair. For many a ship, which the Germans wrongly claim to have sunk, has had enough plates sprung by near bomb hits to make it unseaworthy. The truth of Britain's tonnage position is not all told in Admiralty admissions of sinkings, however honest, any more than it is in German claims...