Word: repaired
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...annual report for 1922 the Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce states that 1200 civilian airplanes were operated throughout the United States. Half of these were operated by established companies, with definite financial responsibility, good fields, repair shops, a system of inspection and skilled, experienced pilots. Twelve accidents and injury to seven persons are debited to these companies in the greatest year of flying in American aviation. But the "gypsy" pilots, young, inexperienced men who buy obsolete Government equipment for a few hundred dollars a plane, neglect repairs, fly anywhere and secure passengers where and how they can, have a sorry record...
This is the first time in many years that receiving stations in Europe failed to get the usual evening call from Paris. Repair work was rapidly pushed forward and the tower is now functioning once more as a wireless station. During the interval of its incapacity, the wireless station at Tours functioned in its place...
...said that Premier Poincare's new bill will omit pension charges, will not require the Class C bonds unless her allies press their debt charges too hard, and therefore will reduce the total reparation charge to fifty billion gold marks. This is no more than enough to repair the damage which Germany herself caused in the war. No German can deny the moral obligation of Germany to pay this irreducible minimum, and if she would give up searching for possible means of quibbling and pledge herself to this amount, she would regain the confidence not only of all the allies...
...left bank 17 miles north of Bagdad, leaving that city an island in a flooded area of 100 square miles. Both the Zab and the Little Zab rivers between Mosul and Bagdad are pouring their swollen tribute into the waters of the Tigris. It will be impossible to repair the breach until the river has fallen ten feet...
...Prince paid $10,000 for a similar picture, and, following the purchase, Russell made sales amounting to $20,300 in a single week. A great fair, in which 120 dealers will sell antique objects of art, will be held at Versailles next summer. Proceeds will go toward the repair of palace and grounds, which have been allowed to fall literally into ruin. Joseph Pennell, distinguished etcher, after a successful invasion of the untried field of water color, has turned his talent to picture postcards. In Philadelphia, five-cent postcards by Pennell and Thornton Oakley are being exhibited. The British Society...