Word: repairable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year to care for approximately eight millions of unemployed." Grafton proposes a three-year plan of this kind, "embracing everything from the construction of bomb-proofs in the East Coast cities to a military CCC to turn the tinkering genius of young America loose on tank and plane repair and maintenance." The Nazis did it, he says, why can't we? Let no one worry if this looks as much like the end of democracy as the beginning. Says Democrat Grafton: "Secret contempt for the democratic process is revealed when use is made of the expression that we must...
...heredity and environment, Professor Newman invited to the Chicago World's Fair ten pairs of identical twins who had been separated since infancy. In some cases they had not even met since childhood. Many had lived strikingly similar lives. "Edwin" and "Fred," for example, both became electricity repair men, married the same year; each had a baby son and a fox terrier named Trixie...
...Harry," is known from Wall Street to Hollywood as a tough trader. In 1935, to sell $108,000,000 in bonds, he arrived in Wall Street with a rifle under his arm, was joshed by friends: "Harry's loaded for wolves." The rifle was actually taken along for repair, but Sportsman Bauer sold the bonds for a then record 3¾%- the first bonds to breach the 4% interest level for utilities...
...fighter-bombers, once unloaded, were far faster meat than the big-bomber fleets of September. Yet the new damage, while bitter, was actually lighter in sum than September's and in the face of "total" air war, the Government got under way a new program of clearance and repair work on the wreckage caused in 37 dreadful days...
...where a newly arrived visitor might not see much trouble at first glance, there was work to be done and the Government set about doing it. A Pioneer Corps of 5,000 skilled wreckers, too old to be soldiers, was set to work dismantling ruined structures, salvaging usable materials, repairing where repair was possible. Another army, drafted from the unemployed, was deployed to pick and sweep up rubble and debris, fill holes in streets. When the sun shone, London's atmosphere was fuzzy with plaster dust from pulverized buildings. But the authorities thought the time had come at least...