Word: repairing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...funds this summer in the primary, where he beat out Senator Tom Stewart, the Crump candidate. Crump has been sulking ever since, and his recent espousal of the States' Rights party is probably as much a fit of pique at Kefauver and Democratic regulars as a wily effort to repair his fading fortunes. In view of these unusual factors, what will happen in Tennessee is anybody's guess, but Republican hopes there are as high as an elephant's eye, even if it has taken the peculiar charms of Roy Acuff to achieve them...
Many a car owner cried that postwar models seemed to have been purposely constructed to "damage easy and repair hard." On several new cars the whole engine had to be unbolted and lifted before the crankcase pan could be removed. Fenders had become wholly or partly an integral part of body panels: before smashed fenders could be replaced, the whole panel had to be removed. A Denver dealer who sold and installed a rear fender on a 1948 model for $20.75 charged $85 for the same job on a 1949 model of the same...
...most famous Gould stunt has been the eight-year-old How America Lives series, in which the Journal not only reports on "typical" families in vast detail, but also fixes up their kitchens, their budgets (which never mention anything spent for liquor) or their personalities-whichever is in worst repair. They like to say that their readers are a jump ahead of them; the fact is that the Journal is out to educate women just as fast as it can, while rattling many a social skeleton in public...
...downs of the meat market. Liver extract, obtained from cow livers, varies in quality. The new product will eventually be mass-produced and comparatively cheap. The animal protein factor has proved that it clears up the blood damage in pernicious anemia. Still to be answered: does it repair the nerve damage that is frequently part of the disease...
What could be done to repair China's shattered morale? Last week, in mountain-top Kuling, where he often goes in moments of his most earnest self-searching, the Gimo and his most trusted advisers tried to find answers. Some of the alternative courses which China might take...