Word: repairer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...early last summer was completed only last week, most of the work being done by the Maintenance Department at the expense of the University. During the summer the Department is understood to have had 15 masons working at six dollars a day for three months on this and other repair jobs of a similar nature. At this price the sum would come to something over $8000 for the summer's repairs on defective brick laying...
Medical Economics, "business magazine of the medical profession," last week tried to answer the doctor's perpetual question: How much shall I charge? In different communities, surgeons charge from $100 to $5,000 to remove a tumor from the bladder, $50 to $2,000 to repair a fractured skull. Removal of an appendix costs $150 to $250 in some Western communities, from $250 to $1,000 in Eastern cities. Office call charges average $2. But some doctors take as little as 50?. some as high as $15. Doctors, to avoid competition, look to their county medical societies...
Public Works Emergency Housing Corp. has broad powers to "construct, re construct, alter and repair" apartments and houses, to lay out, build and maintain roads, parks, playgrounds, sewers, bridges, walls. For the present its policy will be not to compete with private building projects but to supplement them with loans, and, eventually, to turn its activities over to state, county or municipal housing authorities. The corporation's immediate objective is the acquisition of low-cost land "by private contract if possible, otherwise by eminent domain, which power is derived from the National Recovery Act." Unofficial estimates placed the corporation...
...they can live cheaply and comfortably, raise chickens and vegetables. The first locality selected was Morgantown, W. Va., the second Dayton. Dayton had already evolved a similar scheme to relieve its pressing unemploy ment problem, had set up social agencies to teach destitute families to bake bread, can fruit, repair shoes, make furniture...
...case deeper than expediency. The Federal government has always undertaken to provide a mechanism through which goods and services can be exchanged with a minimum of friction. Accordingly, when the mechanism breaks down, as it has assuredly broken down, it is no less the duty of the government to repair it. As long as truckloads of fresh milk and butter are being dumped into Wisconsin creeks while unemployed factory workers in the city are standing in line for a bowl of soup, the responsibility of the government to effect physical transactions between the two groups is, even under the constitution...