Word: repairing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...found that about one-fifth of all railroad employes work at mining, upkeep, repair, clerical or other jobs which take them across no State lines. Four complaining companies alone owned $86,000,000 worth of property classified as non-carrier and yet were asked to pension employes in such enterprises. Some lines, like New York's Long Island R. R., lay entirely within the borders of a single State...
...excited this oldtime salesman, who got his start lugging a sample 50-lb. radiator section around the Midwest, was the first upturn in his business in six years. And Mr. Woolley credited it entirely to the Federal Housing Act which provided, among other things, for partial Government guarantees on repair and remodeling loans up to $2,000 (TIME...
...first two months of the Federal Housing Administration's drive American Radiator business had jumped 40% ahead of the same months of 1933, said Mr. Woolley. In the first two weeks of October sales were up 75%. "And remember." said he. "that only the home repair loan section of the Act is effective as yet. When Title II, providing for financing of new homes and apartments, goes into effect in November, the building trades will get another sharp step forward...
...thousand held their breath. Down into the glare of the floodlights swooped the ship, hit the earth with a thud, skidded 700 ft. on her belly in a shower of dust and sparks, ground to a stop amid cheers and applause. Damaged propellers would cost Northwest Airlines $50 to repair, but unbroken was the company's proud record of eight years without a single passenger fatality...
...from New York that he would not now re-open his Virginia yarn plant even if his 1,858 employes wanted to go back to work. In a letter to Conciliator Anna Weinstock of the Department of Labor he declared that it would take at least three months to repair and renew the Hopewell machinery wrecked by the night raid of the strikers. Such repairs, he said, would cost thousands of dollars?far more than Tubize Chatillon stockholders would be warranted in investing in a rehabilitation of Hopewell. The company would make no more rayon yarn in Virginia but would...