Word: repairs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...criminal condemned to death has donated his body for dismemberment in the interests of science, and that all the parts will be usefully employed to patch up other people. The French government, as representative of a loffical people, has worked it out that such procedures will do much to repair the military disadvantages of having a smaller population than the U.S. or China; one soldier can be used again and again...
...Administration's current tight-money policy had no part in those troubles. They began in 1962, when the bank began backing home-repair work, peddled on the installment plan by a number of Detroit building concerns to lowincome, high-risk customers. In all, Public had committed $66 million to such risky loans-a dangerously high amount for a bank of Public's size. Too many of the loans turned sour. McGuire admitted that $1,000,000 alone was lost in defaulted commercial paper bought from four local building outfits; as it happened, Public Bank Director Harry Granader...
...refrigerators, washing machines and TV sets. Again competitors moved to block Neckermann, each time helping to publicize his wares and prices. They did not stop him from getting supplies, but they did get repairmen to boycott Neckermann goods-with the result that Neckermann now has a chain of 115 repair shops, as well as 30 department stores, 79 smaller retail stores, two supermarkets and three mail-order centers...
...will develop very sophisticated capabilities of repair," promises Boatman. Mechanical hearts, pacemakers powered by the body's own energy systems, implanted television eyes for the blind, even hospitals in gravityless, germless space-all such things seem possible now that medical men are beginning to take full advantage of the expanding skills of modern technology...
...Honda, who thinks of his racing-car engines as "moving laboratories." Honda, the eldest of seven sons of an impoverished blacksmith, grew up in a tiny village 140 miles southwest of Tokyo, dropped out of school at 13, developed an early interest in engines. He opened his own auto repair shop at 22, raced cars, set national speed records, then quit the track at 31 after a serious smashup. Recuperating from his injuries, Honda conceived plans for his own motor company, soon began manufacturing piston rings for autos, naval vessels and planes...