Word: repairing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Said he: "It is not [our] intent to oppose legislation but to accentuate it through the medium of accurate figures on what we get for what we spend. . . . The Committee does not contemplate any time-clock study to determine whether Bill Jones earns his pay spreading tar in highway repair work or whether a department head is worth the salary . . . paid by the State. It has a much broader plan." The assembled publishers cross-examined Editor Shaw for more than an hour, conceded that he had a "good idea...
...damp morning last week, ten U. S. Marines with a roll of telephone wire rode on mule-back along a narrow road under the shadow "of towering, jungle-clad mountains near the Honduras border. Their job was to repair a telephone wire that somebody had cut during the night, their only thought was to finish the job and get back to barracks before lunch. Near a straggling corn patch they found the broken end of the wire drooping from a pole. Though this was the most dangerous district in Nicaragua, the Marines had had no serious trouble for months...
Same day a band of 100 Nicaraguan insurgents twice attempted to raid the Guardia Nacional barracks at Quilali, were beaten off. Three days later a Marine patrol under Captain Ernest L. Russell, scouting for the band that had wiped out the repair crew, fought off an ambush of 150 outlaws, but not before two Marines had been wounded...
...railways have "collapsed." There were 30,000 accidents during the Soviet fiscal year just ended, 1,000 deaths, 2,000 people maimed for life. During August alone 384 engines and 1,638 cars were wrecked beyond repair. But the railways, driven by the fierce will of Dictator Stalin to fulfill the Five-Year Plan, hauled 3,500,000 more carloads this year than last...
...group of 50 Harvard graduates announced that they would raise $5,000 to give to the scrubwomen. This plan failed, and the case was considered concluded until the latest step. The letter of the committee headed by Lamont, on October 24, explained the aim of the fund, "to repair the original injustice and to convince the general public that a more humane and generous temper characterizes Harvard than that which has been displayed by the present administration...