Word: repairable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...return of 1,500,000 French prisoners of war, still held in German prison camps. In central and southern France were 10,000,000 refugees waiting to be conveyed back into territory occupied by Nazis. There were 1,200,000 Belgians waiting to be sent back to Belgium. To repair railroads and highways, reconstruct bridges destroyed by German bombs, the Premier last week mobilized 100,000 workers...
...field is a good base for Navy or Army aircraft. It has no dry docks or major repair facilities. Disabled first-line battleships would have to go north to Norfolk or Philadelphia or pass through the Canal to Balboa for dry-dock repairs. In an emergency the Canal's locks could be used as dry docks...
...Present enrollment: 200,000. Proposed by Sidney Hillman: to add 160,000 to CCC and 300,000 to NYA, train them to run and repair tractors, build roads and bridges...
Germany's attacks ranged from Scotland to the Channel and from the North Sea to the Irish Sea. They were aimed at aircraft and munitions factories, at railroads and other communications, at fighting bases and repair shops of R. N. and R. A. F., at troop concentrations, coastal defense works, port facilities. They were widely scattered to give German squadron leaders practice in reaching numerous objectives, so that when mass raiding began it would be swift and accurate. But the first concentrations of attack were aimed at convoys in the Strait of Dover and at east-coast ports, closing...
While the British Navy acted last week to repair a serious breach in the British Empire defense, Viscount Craigavon, His Majesty's Prime Minister in Northern Ireland, scurried to London for an urgent conference with Warlord Winston Churchill on an equally serious problem: "Irish back door...