Word: repairing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...white collar man on the payroll at a cost of 20? (for pencil and paper), a laborer at a cost of $1 (for a rake). For his $4,000,000,000 last week it looked as if the President would get an abundance of wooden bridges, sidewalk and sewer repair, touring theatrical companies and a census-taking on practically everything from retail liquor stores to the number of unemployed...
...happened that a good friend of Richard Upjohn was the Rev. Jonathan Mayhew Wainright, assistant rector of Manhattan's Trinity Church. At the time that pious pile's walls were sagging badly, the whole structure in need of repair. Richard Upjohn went down from New Bedford, persuaded the Trinity Corporation to rebuild its church entirely in the Gothic style, to move the site nine feet northward so that it would face squarely down the centre of dusty, willow-shaded Wall Street...
...other groups, but like change, outside work, think well of being railway conductors. They are quick to argue but dislike argument. They study their problems alone but prefer not to take chances alone. They pretend to be radicals but are actually conservative. They like to make radio sets, repair clocks, drive automobiles; are not much interested in languages, philosophy, music, literature...
...later that, like the victorious Allies of 1918, he had lost more than he had won. For the scale of wages he imposed after the strike ruined that portion of the coal industry that was subject to them and the ruin of the industry ruined the union almost beyond repair...
Died, Rear Admiral Washington Lee Capps, 71, retired, onetime Chief Constructor of the U. S. Navy, chief of its Bureau of Construction and Repair from 1903 to 1910; of heart disease; in Washington. On Admiral Dewey's staff during the Spanish-American War, he supervised raising and repairing Spanish vessels captured in the battle of Manila Bay. As Chief Constructor he evolved the all-big-gun ship, the skeleton mast which became a distinctive feature of U. S. warcraft...