Word: repairer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Force, and confidently forecast the happy day when as many as 2,000 U.S. planes would hit Japan in a single attack. Doolittle's big air force had wound up its war with 2,400 Fortresses and Liberators (the new "mediums") plus a considerable number of others in repair depots and reserve pools, and 1,200 fighters. Asked just what he expected to do in the Pacific, he answered, "I wish I knew." But it would be surprising if Bomber Doolittle and his crack operations officer, Major General Orvil Anderson, did not have plenty to do there...
...Twenty years will not repair the damage done by the deliberate starvation, exposure and cruelty of the policies of the Supermen, East and West. For at least that long we must see to it that the minds and bodies of our friends and Allies are nourished...
Colonel Gordon, who thinks cancellous bone may eventually outmode metal plates, says he did not originate the idea. It was suggested last year by Dr. Rainsford Mowlem of New Zealand, who uses it to repair noses...
...their last stand. In Bolzano and Klagenfurt concentrations of 55 troops were reported, and work was being rushed on fortifications. Hitler's own Berchtesgaden was said to be another strongpoint. According to the stories reaching neutral capitals, the mountains around the Nazi strongpoints now bristle with defense works, repair shops, arms and munition depots. The caves of the ancient salt mines around Königs-See have been converted into subterranean hangars and air-dromes; into factories making guns, planes and synthetic gasoline...
...Leave, a sailor home from the Pacific finds his girl married, bruises his knuckles on her husband when the husband invites him to take her out. In A Respectable Place, a drunken cop shoots up Matty Wall's bar and the police benefit society gives him $175 to repair it. Then the cops pass Matty without speaking, his daughter gets a parking ticket, the beer truck un loading at his place gets a summons for obstructing traffic, and when Matty tries to return the $175, he is accused of bribery...