Word: repairer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thirteen months after the war before a single new passenger car could be turned out. This would be bad enough for car-hungry customers; but it would amount to nine months of starvation or the dole for the 2,000,000-odd people who normally supply, produce, sell and repair automobiles. Against such a Brobdingnagian reconstruction problem the immediate question of who was to stand the loss if a $4,000 machine is melted down for $40 worth of scrap seems Lilliputian, but this could give WPB a very bad time too-as WPB well knows...
...hope was in "those grey-eyed, broad-faced, frowning, sweating, swearing Russians." It was in the quiet battalions of Red soldiers, suddenly appearing in Murmansk and laboring through the night to repair the bombed wharves; then, at the end of overnight leave, returning to the northern front...
London estimated that altogether five and a half square miles in nine German cities had been devastated, that 500 war factories had been smashed beyond speedy repair, 1,000,000 Germans driven from their homes...
Effect. The effect of continuous bombing has been found to be much greater than that of desultory raids, ton for ton. This is due to the effects of secondary fires, disorganization, wrecking of repair equipment, transport and communication systems...
Since then his Central Aircraft Manufacturing Co. of China has built and sold more than $30,000,000 worth of planes and repair services to China, has built and operated three different plants as the Japanese bombed them out. Profit to Pawley: up to $1,000,000 a year. First Pawley was at Shanghai; then at Hankow up the Yangtze (where he made 78 bombers and repaired 90 fighters); finally at Loi Wing just over the border from Burma. The Japs caught up with his $1,000,000 Loi Wing factory, just after he had trucked most of its machinery...