Word: repairer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...current bills, a $254,000 payroll was due in two weeks, $46,000,000 worth of bonds had been in default since 1922-and there was only $103,000 in the bank. He had to sell some of his battered boxcars for scrap to get enough cash to repair his rotten rails. But he got every discouraged M. & St. L. employe to help him sell people on "The Peoria Gateway," amazed potential customers by helping them sell their own goods and services too. Since then he has poured $20,000,000 back into new equipment, has located over...
...plant in El Segundo, employing 21,000, and more than 100 other small plants and repair stations tucked away in worldwide spots from Persia to China. The Santa Monica and half of the El Segundo plants represent Douglas Aircraft investment. Government money built the others...
...Bombs away!" over the interphone, and followed it with a sigh of relief that came all the way from his fleece-lined boots. The Flying Fortress Mischief Maker was riding 20,000 feet over Reims airdrome and, even as Mike's bombs were thundering into the hangars and repair shops crammed with German planes, heavy gray clouds were closing in and blotting out the field...
Still afloat but of questionable value as fighting ships are the battleship Gneisenau, the pocket battleship Admiral Scheer, the heavy cruisers Prinz Eugen and the Admiral Hipper. Repeatedly damaged by torpedo and air attacks, these four are presumably under repair...
...Russians, this assemblage bore promise of war's end. True, there was friction among the Allies, but it was not beyond repair. Indeed, open discussion of the friction might be a healthy sign. The Government's Izvestia ticked off samples of "developing cooperation": the recent food conference at Hot Springs, Va.; agreement on the economic rehabilitation of freed territory; the creation, at Stalin's suggestion, of the Inter-Allied Mediterranean Commission; the joint acceptance by the U.S.S.R., Britain and the U.S. of Italy's re-entry into the war as a cobelligerent...