Word: repairer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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About a year ago Herr Semi Feblowicz, smart Berlin lawyer, drove his automobile along slippery Berlin streets, skidded, smashed into another car, ran up an 80-mark repair bill at a garage...
Lawyer Feblowicz, irked at his 80-mark repair bill for an accident that was neither his fault nor that of the other car. learned from scientific friends that a new type of asphalt paving has been perfected which is guaranteed antiskid. None of it has been laid in Berlin...
University officials pointed out that most of the kitchens and dining halls in the Houses and the Union had been completely reconditioned at the opening of the year, thus reducing the expenditures for maintenance and repair during the rest of the season. In spite of these facts the $70,000 profit represented only seven per cent of the total receipts of $966,000. $40,000 of the profit is being used to pay students holding the new jobs in the Houses...
...signals ahead in 1928. Each company sought other ways to make money. They went into Diesel engines, power shovels and other heavy machinery as sidelines. But their great main plants are still locomotive plants and must have locomotive business to survive. The three companies can always count on some repair and parts business. But even this has been deferred, for with traffic falling off, broken-down Iron Horses can be turned out into the yards indefinitely. At present it is estimated that 10,000 of them are in need of re-shoeing...
...Kosciuszko Squadron was the first military aviation unit to base on a railroad train. Headquarters, repair shops, bunks were set up in box cars to provide the mobility that Polish campaigns demanded. Receiving equivalent rank in the Polish army, the U. S. pilots were paid on the same basis as the Poles. First casualty occurred when Lieut. Graves flew the wings off his Albatross during a review for bushy-browed Marshal Pilsudski, plummeted to his death in the midst of Lwow...