Word: repairer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spite of the continuous V-bombing, oil dumps, barge basins, ship repair facilities-all going full tilt-line the waterfront. A floating generator-supplies the battered port with its power. In the Antwerp Ford plant, still standing, Belgians assemble Army trucks. (The General Motors plant nearby has been demolished...
First he set out resolutely to repair some of the damage done to U.S.-French relations. Greeting a group of visiting French correspondents after his press conference, he spoke a few words of Rooseveltian French to them, then told them (in Rooseveltian English) how sorry he was he had not got to France on his way home from Yalta. In glowing terms, he recalled the days of his youth, when he had bicycled through the French countryside...
...enlisted men-officers do not have to work, and few of them choose to-repair Army clothes, tools and noncombat Army equipment, build sheds, lay roads. The Army also hires them out as farm laborers, woodcutters, quarry workers. The prisoner-workers are paid 80? a day by the Army (in canteen coupons) and wages for their work, paid at prevailing rates, go directly to the U.S. Treasury. P.W.s have saved crops, released service troops for other jobs, and the U.S. Government last year rang up about $10,000,000 on the deal...
...aide: "The United States looks upon Mexico as a good "neighbor, a strong upholder of democratic traditions in this hemisphere, and a country we are proud to call our own." When "our own" popped out, Mr. Stettinius gasped, read bravely on. One of his functionaries hastily tried to repair the damage to Mexican pride, asked newsmen to make it read: "our friend...
...expected to cruise at well over 400 m.p.h., and to fly at altitudes above the prewar U.S. record (43,166 ft). Once a pilot gets used to it, it is easier to fly than a fast propeller-driven plane. It is also safer and easier to keep in repair, can use such cheap fuels as kerosene (engineers say it will fly on "anything from coal oil to Napoleon brandy...