Word: repairing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Increased repair and maintenance by railroads, headed by Daniel Willard (Baltimore &Ohio), and George H. Houston (Baldwin Locomotive...
...Home repair and improvement, headed by Montgomery Ward's Avery and American Radiator's Woolley...
...that no remedy can be effected by having recourse either to the covenant of the League of Nations or to any other organ of what may be termed 'machinery of peace.' In fact, it has been the practice of the powers, as has been demonstrated on innumerable occasions, to repair or prevent injuries to their important rights and interests in China by direct application of force without relying upon those instruments of peace...
When Engineer Pierre Guillard last week whipped out a jackknife in the Louvre and slashed The Angelus five times, stabbed it several times and scratched it in 20 places, he was overcome by a guard, jailed, judged insane. Experts began at once to repair the gashes and stabs. Except for a rent in the sky, all can be made invisible. The picture, though not inimitable, is irreplaceable, hence its value will not be affected by stabs and gashes...
...Workmen's Compensation Bureau, who designated the four, generally accepted their bills without question. The doctors themselves remarkably often did not know for what they were charging. Dr. Feinberg, for example, charged $47 for four x-rays of a workman's hand, and nine office calls "for repair of wounds." The man had an injured right toe. Dr. Cassasa once charged for "strapping a foot" of an employe who had hurt his left thumb. Another employe cut a finger of his right hand. The bill to the city was $55- for 15 visits at $2 each...