Word: repairer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stockings. Into department-store receptacles U.S. women last week started to drop used silk and nylon stockings, run beyond repair, which the Government wants. Nylon will be reprocessed and used for something the Government is keeping a secret. Silk (which burns without leaving an ash) will be rewoven into powder bags...
...Navy, convicts make submarine nets; make or recondition buoys; repair hundreds of shoes; do laundry. They are making 300,000 Navy pillowcases, 40,000 mattress covers, have turned out 10,000 Navy cafeteria trays and only await metal to turn out 100,000. The prison's furniture shop has made hundreds of night sticks for the California State Guard; the jute mill makes sacking for sandbags, the machine shop repairs Navy valves...
...although shipbuilders may not launch their full quota, repair yards this year have set a new and brilliant record. In a recent twelve-month period they overhauled and refitted some 5,500 ships (of over 1,000 tons each) and they did this in the incredibly short time of an average of 17 days per ship...
...repair yards came Axis ships seized last winter in U.S. ports, most of them hideously mutilated; came limping torpedoed and shelled ships with ghastly scars; came those with heavy-weather damage-for the winds and storms still do their work, too; came others for conversion from sleek passenger liners to troop carriers; hundreds were fitted with degaussing apparatus, armed with guns. Some repair jobs were on such a large scale that the ships were practically rebuilt, many were completely re-engined. In one month 783 ships were under repair in 40 yards...
Mixing work and play, 50 students from colleges in the Greater Boston area, including Simmons, Wellesley, Radcliffe, M.I.T. and Harvard, will leave today for a two day stay at a work camp in Stoughton. The purpose of the camp is to repair and refurnish a summer camp for underprivileged children...