Word: repairer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...condition of the sale was that the Shipping Board put the 18 vessels in first-class condition. Its repair bill was $1,825,718 with the result that the Government took a cash loss of $754,287 on the sale. Mr. Herbermann gave $3,500 worth of cattle to the father-in-law of the Shipping Board's repair officer, put up another $15,000 to save the same father-in-law's California ranch from foreclosure...
...Northern Ontario. Grounded in a thunderstorm about 550 mi. from the start, Balloonists Trotter & Van Orman had plunged through the bush until they stumbled on power lines of Ontario Hydro-Electric Co. Shrewdly they had chopped down a pole, knowing that soon a lineman would be sent to repair the break. On the stump they left a note saying that they were following the line south. Finding the note the lineman hurried after, found them huddled in a shanty, their clothes shredded and shoes worn through, wretched with ptomaine poisoning from a can of beans. Few hours later the Polish...
...four friends who paid a $500 repair bill for him after he cracked up in Chickasha, Okla. while preparing for his round-the-world flight, Flyer Wiley Post gave checks for twice that...
...House curtain and the gaudy murals done by a forgotten painter named Massman. In 1931 the McFarlane heirs gave the sorry pile to Denver University as a landmark of Colorado's brawling past, past enough for Coloradoans to be proud of. But the University could not afford to repair the vast, draughty stage, prop up the collapsing roof. To the rescue came Denver's able, elderly Art Patron Ann Evans, socialite president of Evans Investment Co., daughter of Colorado's second territorial Governor, John Evans. She soon made Central City a Denver socialite fad. To rebuild...
...crew of five intruding famed Sherman Hoyt, who has navigated the Atlantic on everything except an inflated tire tube, the Dorade sailed for Norway in May. She arrived in 24 days after encountering two gales in one of which Roderick Stephens had to go aloft for three hours to repair a spreader on the mainmast...