Word: repairer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...exchange of letters between Melvin Hall's father and the Winton (automobile) Corporation, circa 1898: "Dear Mr. Winton: I am now in possession of my horseless carriage, which is giving me fine service. There is one feature, however, which disturbs me, and that is the question of repair of . . . puncture...
This dramatic, unsolicited windfall came from 76-year-old Banker Thomas William Lament of J. P. Morgan & Co. It was almost enough to cover the largest item on the list of needed cathedral reconstruction: $520,000 to repair the roof and reface the Caen stone, damaged by centuries of British weather as well as bombs. (The stone was brought from Normandy to rebuild the 6th Century church which had been destroyed by fire...
Early in 1946, with the Japanese gone, the Chinese Government realistically decided that repair of the railroad was China's No. 1 reconstruction need. To direct the monumental job, it assigned 56-year-old Tu Chung-yuan, a Cornell-trained, driving and determined veteran of China's railways, who has always admired the American "railroad game" (as well as American strawberry shortcake and pie á la mode...
...assist him, Builder Tu called on S. P. Lin (Purdue) and K. T. Fung (Princeton and Harvard). They had virtually no modern machinery, few tools, no new girders to repair bridge spans still lying twisted in river beds. But they made shift with what they had. And in six amazing months, the job was done...
Help us to come back with whatever used athletic articles you can spare. We need shoes, (used ones) and we can repair them, footballs, javelins...