Word: repairmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...what appeared to be a violent protest against existing weather conditions, the elves and gnomes which frequent all gases, particularly neon, have incapacitated the "S" in SHELL (right), giving the motorists on Memorial Drive at Magazine Beach a vivid reminder that the day of judgment is not far off. Repairmen have been alerted and are expected to appear on the scene tomorrow to disenchant the "S". If the weather or the magic spell is too potent, the sign may remain in its unholy predicament, and, as the station's proprietor observed, "The (S) hell Oil people will be mighty...
First Things First. In Tauranga, New Zealand, Postman James Duncan, 41, was fined $56 after postoffice repairmen found under the floor boards 1,200 Christmas letters, which Duncan had hidden there when he realized that he did not have time to deliver the mail and attend a Christmas Eve party as well...
First Things First. In Tauranga. New Zealand, Postman James Duncan, 41, was fined $56 after post-office repairmen found under the floor boards 1,200 Christmas letters, which Duncan had hidden there when he realized that he had no time to deliver the mail and attend a Christmas Eve party as well...
Calvin Richmond, 13, had been badly crushed when he fell under a truck near Pine Bluff, Ark. In the membranes separating the chambers of his heart were three holes which allowed the blood to flow inefficiently back and forth. The University of Minnesota's team of heart repairmen, headed by Dr. Clarence Walton Lillehei, needed a "dry field" (the heart drained of blood) if they were to operate successfully. A Toronto-born colleague, Dr. Gilbert Campbell, 31, offered them the dog's lung to attain this. (He had already used lungs in 100 experimental operations with animals...
Still, Small Voice. In Milwaukee, sentenced to two years for stealing a jacket and toweling, Gerald F. Russell admitted that he had no use for either, explained lamely: "I guess every person has a little larceny in his heart." Dial Tone. In Pacific Beach, Calif., telephone repairmen uncrossed the wires leading into the home of Robert J. Schroeder after Schroeder and his neighbors complained that every time his telephone rang it set off the air raid siren across the street...