Word: repairer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Third move was to spend some money: 1) by raising the minimum for Government employes' salaries to $30 a week; 2) by appropriating $1,230,000 to repair the Government buildings, roads and bridges of Revolution-torn Cuba...
Last fall Shoemaker, kept sleepless in a Minneapolis hotel by trolley repair men, went into battle at 2 a. m. in trousers, undershirt, smashed an acetylene welding machine, threw red lanterns in all directions, demanded a ride to police headquarters four blocks distant, was released when he identified himself. The trolley company swallowed its loss...
...trust you will try to repair the damage done to an industry with a record 100% clean of casualties from gas poisoning...
That was quickly done, and once again, like crafty Odysseus, foxy Samouel Insullos sailed the wine-dark ocean past the isles of Greece. The end of adventure was not yet. The Maiotis' wheezy engines broke down outside the harbor and took many hours to repair. Then she ran into a heavy storm, was forced to take shelter in the lee of an island. Never a good sailor, Samuel Insull tossed sickishly about on his little freighter reeking of stale oil and garlic and whimpered that shiploads of U. S. pirates were lying in wait to kidnap...
...merchant marine to its oldtime glory by means of mail subsidies and cheap construction loans, Exporter Herbermann got the first mail contract. His subsequent activities were aired last year before the Senate committee investigating air and ocean mail contracts. Discoveries: 1) the Shipping Board spent $1,825,000 to repair 18 ships which it sold bolt and keel to -Henry Herbermann for $1,071,431; 2) Mr. Herbermann, under the Jones-White Act, borrowed from the Shipping Board $7,122,750 to build four passenger liners, got his loans extended later although Export's debts exceeded its assets...