Word: repairer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army has grudgingly made a few changes: it was finally persuaded to use plywood pontoons, for example, after it was clearly demonstrated that they handled as well as aluminum and were much easier to repair...
...airline operators expect to squeak through the pilot shortage by giving jobs to 1) independent air taxi operators; 2) airmen from the Civil Air Patrol; 3) newly trained men. For more mechanics the airlines have turned to a brand-new mass training technique. In Kansas City, T.W.A. is training repair crew specialists in 60 days v. two years for old-line, all-round aviation mechanics. Only drawback: the 1942 model mechanic knows, for example, only the radio, or the ignition system, or cylinder work, or wing repair. To help out, the Army plans to pull 50,000 tinker-minded soldiers...
When a large piece of artery has been torn away, a nearby vein can be tied off and a piece cut out for a patch. (Smaller, "collateral veins" can always take up the circulation of the large ones.) Even when it is impossible to repair an artery, Dr. Pratt continued, amputation is still not inevitable, for, like a vein, an artery can be ligated (tied off from circulation). There is small danger of gangrene if the accompanying vein is also ligated...
Price Boss Leon Henderson, trying hard to keep his ceilings in repair, had a week of ups & downs. The War Labor Board, in the Little Steel case, created a new burst of purchasing power for him to worry about. There his only consolation was that the board might have done worse. But he also got a little help...
These actions did credit to The Auk's aggressive spirit, but they did not alter the basic situation: Rommel was defending his front with infantry and artillery; the bulk of his armored forces were withdrawn from action for rest and repair...