Word: repairing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Constellation (which has a landing-gear lever where the DC-4 has its flap lever). Instead of the flaps coming up, the wheels came up. The Connie crashed seven feet, on to the runway. The crew and 26 passengers were unhurt. But the $750,000 Connie was damaged beyond repair. Contributing cause to the accident: a safety lock-designed to keep the landing gear from coming up when a plane is on the ground-did not work...
...Senators Tom Connally and Arthur Vandenberg talked and there was no mistaking their indignation. Vandenberg, sick of trying to demonstrate national unity in foreign policy when the Administration was so disunited, was thoroughly fed up. Editorialized the Baltimore Sun: "It will be almost impossible to repair [the Wallace-Truman blunder] unless these men show almost superhuman forbearance and stand by the stricken ship of nonpartisan policy." Connally and Vandenberg stood...
Hardboiled Harry Lundeberg' in the West, and in the East, medium-boiled John Hawk of the A.F.L. Seafarers International, yanked out 43,000 men. Longshoremen, tugboat men, radiomen, masters, mates and pilots announced that they would support the strike. Machinists in repair yards "hit the bricks." Even C.I.O.'s wily Johnny announced that he would respect A.F.L.'s picket lines, although he promised to work UNRRA ships...
Famed St. Patrick's Cathedral, on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue, was getting its face lifted. Last week, at just about the halfway mark in an ambitious repair job, tubular-steel cobwebs festooned the neo-Gothic church. St. Patrick's had cost only $1,500,000 by the time it was dedicated in 1879; the patching had already taken $1,000,000, would take another year and another million dollars...
...great university must take matters like Corporations and student reactions as a routine part of his job. Moreover, the greatest measure of his efforts goes unnoticed by students and faculty alike. The precious meat for the dining halls, hot water for the Houses, the fire in Thayer, the repair to Memorial Hall, and the installing of sanitary facilities for the veterans' housing units-all fall within the daily scope of his activities. In all of these Durant is the perfect Yankee, shrewd and tight-lipped, but eminently fair. From his office in Lehman Hall the building and maintenance services that...