Word: repairer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Down in the fine print of almost all appropriation bills Congress customarily stipulates that anything built with public funds shall be "for public use." In 1951 Mississippi unquestioningly accepted that familiar provision along with $1,133,000 in federal funds to repair the hurricane-torn sea wall along the Gulf Coast beach stretching some 24 miles westward from Biloxi. So far as segregationist Mississippi was concerned, the "public" that could use the beach was white only...
Hoodwinked. In Salisbury. Southern Rhodesia, midnight auto thieves, for fear of being heard starting the engine of a car they were stealing, cleverly pushed it a quarter-mile before they discovered that the engine had been removed for repair...
...Lockheed recruited Air Force ist Lieut. Francis Powers. Powers was a plane-happy youngster born in the Cumberland mountain country in Kentucky, near the Virginia border. His father, Oliver Powers, 55, who owns a shoe-repair shop in Norton, Va., reveled in telling callers last week that Francis got his first plane ride at the age of 14, came back to announce: "I left my heart up there, Pap, and I'm goin' back...
...construction executive), who thus hoped to keep him from electrocuting himself in precocious experiments with their house's electric outlets. He assembled a radio before he could read, at seven built a TV set, by 13 was making $1,000 a year from his own TV repair business...
When Germans grabbed up the radio sets, retailers pressured repair shops to boycott all Neckermann products, carried out a "voluntary" boycott even after a court ruled in Neckermann's favor. Result: Neckermann set up a network of his own repair shops throughout Germany, decided to go into other appliances. In 1954 he diversified into TV sets (selling for $100 below the cheapest set on the market), later added sewing machines, auto accessories, food and liquor...