Word: repairer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...locomotives and other supplies, has begun its rehabilitation task by distributing hoes, plows and draft horses to destitute peasants of two continents. UNRRA's biggest rehabilitation project was progressing at breakneck speed in China, where U.S. Seabees and 150,000 Chinese laborers last week worked day & night to repair the war-torn Yellow River dyke. If UNRRA succeeds in restoring the dyke before June, some 7,500,000 bushels of grain will be saved from the river's ravaging floods...
Nickels were not paying the subway's keep: by July 1, the city's transit system would be $54 million in debt. Its power stations were just about gone (repair cost, over $100 million), its rolling stock worn and rattly, its tracks older than the Ancient Mariner, its stations full of old newspapers and old vomit...
...Work. Already 50 workmen had been hired to repair outlet valves on the 684-ft.-wide dam, patch up the ancient bunkhouses, put the powerhouse in operation, recap and creosote the dock pilings. Topflight Swedish engineers had been asked for estimates on electric furnaces and other key installations. To get things ready, between $500,000 and $1,000,000 would be spent...
...Iturbi, warm-blooded conductor-pianist, shaved & bathed in cold water for a few days, then took action against his Los Angeles plumber, who had his hot-water heater. The plumber, charged Iturbi, hadn't carried out a repair job as promised, but demanded $50 before he would return the heater. The chattering maestro sued for $3,000 damages...
...best workers in the war, and the 5,000,000 or so German prisoners and draftees have the inadequacies of all slave labor. Said one disgruntled Soviet factory director: "When we brought a German who said he was a diesel specialist to a diesel engine that needed repair, he would then say he was a marine diesel specialist. . . . Phooey, they are useless...