Word: repairing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Brooklyn, John Gentrio, barber, called Herman Finsel, plumber, to repair a leaking pipe. Plumber Finsel went back to get a gasket; Barber Gentrio held his thumb on the pipe five hours. Later, when Plumber Finsel came to the barber shop to have his beard shaved, Gentrio shaved half of it; departed, taking all the razors in the shop to be honed; stayed out five hours...
...population of 22,835-whereas big Greenland with an area 84 times as great (46,740 sq. mi.) has a population of only 14,355. "In my opinion," said Prime Minister Stauning, "there is room in the Faroe Islands for private initiative and the investment of capital to establish repair stations equipped with large petroleum and benzine tanks to supply the Diesel-engined fishing vessels which are becoming very numerous." Of Greenland's trade the Prime Minister said cautiously: "It is well to wait and see how the country develops. The seal industry which was once very prosperous...
...freight cars,* it is the largest owner and operator of freight cars ? 40,000 of them, which it leases out to various railroads. Of these, 45% are tank cars, the rest are divided principally among stock, glass-lined milk and refrigerator cars. The company through subsidiaries owns ten repair shops far-flung through out the U. S., operates 5,000 freight cars abroad, has the largest storage terminal in the U. S. (at Goodhope, La.?a town built by the company...
...joined by the oversea Florida East Coast R. R.), during the Spanish War it was concentration centre for the U. S. Atlantic Fleet, embarkation point for many a Cuba-bound soldier. During the World War it served as a Naval flyers' training station, since has been a repair port and operating base for submarines, destroyers. Last week the Navy Department, pursuing the Administration's rigid-economy plans, ordered this historic base closed, together with its industrial plants. Only the offices of the 7th Naval District, the Naval Reserve training headquarters, and the (Army) fort will remain open...
...only reparation that we who have awakened Hungary from powerlessness and restored order to the country can make is to place Karl's son Otto on the throne which belongs to him at the earliest possible moment. Soon we shall repair our fault of not preventing the carrying off of our King by enthroning...