Word: repairer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...recently four men with head wounds were brought to a British Army hospital in France; they could not be operated on for lack of needles & thread fine enough to stitch severed nerves together. Lieut. William Such, who used to repair miniature watches for a living, soon contrived the needles, but a thread substitute was something else again. The hair of all the nurses except one was found too fine-and that one was a blonde (black hair, easy to see, had to be used in so delicate an operation...
...production officials and Jap Navymen, whose yards were choked with ships under repair, Mother Earth was singing no lullaby. It was admitted that homes and buildings in the Tokyo-Yokohama region were ruined by landslides, that factories along the 250-mile coastal strip from Tokyo to Osaka were damaged...
Under them, signers would permit 1) flying across their territory by any signatory, 2) landing only to refuel, repair, etc., 3) unloading passengers and freight taken on in the plane's home nation, 4) loading passengers and freight destined for the plane's home nation, 5) loading passengers and freight in one nation and carrying them to any other signatory...
...score of enemy destruction was finally complete last week, it was not greatly different from the summary published two weeks ago. The Japs had lost two battleships, four carriers, six heavy cruisers, two light cruisers, an undetermined number of destroyers. Severely damaged and ticketed for months of repair (perhaps under U.S. bombing) were a third battleship, five cruisers, seven destroyers. Less hard hit, but damaged, were six battleships, five cruisers, ten destroyers...
Recently the onetime civilian railroaders who run the M.M. & M. set up a repair shop for twelve barely salvageable steam engines left behind by the Japs. After plugging 677 holes in the water tank of No. 1, they had it going in eight days. No. 6, hopefully named The Rangoon Limited, went to work last week. But in the absence of coal, the wood-burning engines are limited to short runs. The M.M. & M., which now extends southward beyond Mo-gaung, will have to depend on the jeep to pull it through eventually to Mandalay...