Word: repairing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...will take many months and years to repair France's 1,500,000 destroyed buildings, 2,000 wrecked bridges, 2,400 miles of torn railway, and all the other injuries to docks, fields and plain people. Raw materials and manpower are sorely lacking. The harvest (leading crops : wheat and sugar beets) has suffered from drought and from the thousands of still-buried German land mines. Inflation corrodes all progress and apparently will not be banished until the franc is devalued, a measure from which officialdom shies. But, de spite the vast inertia which grips France's economy...
West Pubnico has prospered during the war. In season the hardy Pubniconian men go after lobster, herring, mackerel and tuna. Winters they repair their nets, tend their cows and chickens, live off their home-grown vegetables and the fish they salted away, and generally take life easy in their tidy, white-frame homes which are clustered about Father Leblanc's St. Peter's Church...
...days later, at Lachine, a crowd of 2,000 broke up house-to-house distribution of Witness sermons, then besieged Joseph Letellier and three other Witnesses of the sect in Letellier's watch-repair shop. They smashed windows, messed up the shop's front. Three youths were arrested-for throwing stones...
...Federal Reserve Board this week promised the public its first taste in over four years of the old American custom of installment buying. "Regulation W" (wartime consumer credit control) will be relaxed enough to remove all restrictions for the installment purchase of building and home repair materials. If the materials are to be had, the average man can once more build all the new houses or buy all the new bathrooms he can afford, "on time...
Short Careers. The U.S. Maritime Commission put up for sale, as junk, four Liberty ships war-damaged beyond repair. Two of them had been torpedoed, one had been bombed, one had crashed into another vessel, was gutted by fire. If the ships are bought for scrap, purchasers must agree to destroy all motors, engines and other salvageable gear. Reason: to keep these items off an already glutted market. So far the Maritime Commission has received bids for two of the ships: $3,100 and $9,100 (they had cost upward of $1.5 million apiece...