Word: repairer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...flag came down on Ecuadorean soil. But the U.S. abandonment of its Galápagos outpost was more protocol than reality. Ecuador is broke. Until the Government can face either the political risks of an outright lease to the U.S. or afford to keep the bases in repair, some 100 U.S. "technicians" would stay around to help...
...Repair Omissions, Fill Gaps. Sir Richard, who recognizes the fact that education is a lifelong process, is one of adult education's most persuasive salesmen. He believes in a special kind-"not only for those who have missed a complete education, but also for those who have received one." He would have Anglo-Saxon countries take a lesson from Denmark's "people's high schools," which are not high schools but residential colleges for adults. There men & women in their late twenties leave their jobs for three or five months, to study the humanities and live...
...students, Emily Griffith would perhaps have been proudest of a 26-year-old veteran, racing against approaching blindness. Opportunity had set up special training apparatus for him to study electricity, using bells instead of lights as signals. He planned to open his own electrical repair shop in Pueblo, when the night closed...
...housing problem developed, the University managed to purchase, through the Federal Public Housing Administration, these six-family units. The Government transported them down from Maine, where they had been occupied by war workers, erected them, and left the Harvard Housing Bureau on its own. The University handles all the repair and necessary maintenance, pays the light bills and tampers with the plumbing. The students have only to sweep the steps and water the lawn. The veterans' opinion of the Court was summed up by a family man who had served overseas as a colonel with the Army of the United...
...Atlanta Ordnance Depot is one of several depots that receive vehicles for repairs. They are stored in open fields since there is not enough undercover storage to meet the requirements. About 31,000 vehicles of all types are stored there at present, including trucks, passenger cars and motorcycles. At the present time there are 525 passenger cars there, of which 48 are in serviceable condition. The balance of 477 cars are unserviceable and require varying amounts of repair work...