Word: repairer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...curious change. Having finished a statue he is not satisfied with it until he has caused Alceo Dossena to take it out in the back yard, smash it with a hammer, skillfully round the edges of the break with fine abrasives, pickle it in acids and stains, then repair it with fetching crudity...
Makers of tabulating machines refused to see why the Census Bureau should manufacture and repair its apparatus. Printers violently objected to the Post Office's merchandising stamped and printed return envelopes at the rate of 10,000,000 per day. Railway Express Agency wanted to put the parcel post system out of business because it operated for less than cost.* Architects contended that the Treasury was hogging the design of new public buildings. Brokers in farm products were bitterly resentful against the Farm Board's activities...
...started a garage in Arlington, Mass., took in Brother Thomas. That was in 1919. When the garage business was running smoothly, they formed Granville Bros. Air Service. All they needed was a plane and someone to fly it, both of which they hired. Their education progressed. They established a repair service at Boston Airport, did so much business that soon there was room for Brothers Edward, Mark, Robert. In time, all but Tom got pilots' licenses...
...small book on the dusty shelves. Shelley, that was it! Now there was a period of leisure, a time to spend solely on education. The Vagabond resolved nobly to make up in cultural gains for the time lost in forced labor. He wondered how much it would cost to repair that...
...after weighing the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers' complaints about the treachery of hand reverse gears, ruled that by the end of 1936 all locomotives must be equipped with power reversers. Of the 55,000 locomotives in the land (of which 9,000 were in need of repair last week), half still have hand reverse gears. The I. C. C. order means that about $10,000,000 will be transferred out of the lean pockets of the railways into the lean pockets of the equipment companies...