Word: repairing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Battle shifted from shells and smoke screens to words and laws. How long should Uruguay allow the Spee to stay? Articles 14 and 17 of The Hague Convention of 1907: A belligerent ship may remain in a neutral port only 24 hours, unless to repair damages affecting seaworthiness; under no circumstances may she repair armaments...
Captain James P. Mahoney stated that the search had widened to all sections of Massachusetts, and that neighboring states had been asked to check damaged cars answering descriptions given by witnesses. Police also requested all garages and repair shops to report repairs on fenders or purchases of head-lamp lenses...
...independent States, we must learn the lessons of the past. No paper plan will endure that does not freely spring from the will of the peoples who alone can give it life. . . . There is a cynical saying that it is often the task of the wise to repair the harm done by the good. When this war is over, we shall have to see to it that wisdom and good will combine for the immense task that will await...
...week ended Oct. 7, loadings reached 834,694-a rise of just 54 cars-indicating that until the railroads can repair their dilapidated equipment, a shipping ceiling has been reached...
...against any possible famine if only they can get delivery on orders already placed. Chief worry of the industry right now is how to keep the operating rate (last week: 87.5%, this week 88.6%; buying by consumers took up about 70%) above 85% of nominal capacity without dangerously deferring repairs, cracking up expensive new machinery, running shaky old machinery into the ground. Even small marginal companies like Tycoon J. H. Hillman Jr.'s Pittsburgh Steel Co. were defying the rule of producing with 85% of capacity and rotating 15% under repair, were actually smelting ingots at better than...