Word: repairs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...buying habits of millions of Germans, made his firm into the biggest mail order house in West Germany by cutting prices and battling other big merchandisers who tried to put him out of business. Today, Neckermann rules over an empire of 22 retail stores, 48 electrical appliance stores, 60 repair shops, more than 100 mobile repair units and 8,000 workers-and a 1959 gross of $132 million. All this has made Joseph Neckermann a millionaire: he lives in a 16-room Frankfurt mansion with his wife and three children, indulges his hobby of riding with a stable of prizewinners...
Although about a million Americans annually have a first heart attack, which they survive with varying degrees of disability, doctors so far have been baffled in efforts to find a safe and generally applicable way of helping the body to repair the damage. Italian surgeons pioneered with rerouting one or two small arteries from the upper chest to the heart wall. The operation is relatively minor and safe, but most U.S. cardiologists doubt that it does much good, if any. Cleveland's Dr. Claude S. Beck (TIME, March 25, 1957) and Manhattan's Dr. Samuel Thompson (TIME...
Decline & Fall. In Upton, Dorset County, England, dismayed by the shoddy condition of one of the town's roads, D. K. Coleman fired off a letter to Italy, asked the Romans to come back to Britain and repair the road they built 1,600 years...
...promptly suggested that it might repair the cup. A conciliatory letter from President Kintner reminded Paar of the other people on his show who were affected by his walkout. "I hope you will think of all of them, Jack, and decide to come back to us." At the same time, NBC was insisting that it would hold Paar to his fiveyear, $200,000-a-year contract...
...afternoon lessons in music (all instruments), good manners and ballroom dancing, along with projects in radio, photography and chemistry. Manual training is mandatory, and older children will soon work part time in nearby factories to learn a trade. Each child must also learn to drive a car-and repair it. Every Friday comes "hygiene day," when all must pass personal inspection of clothes and quarters, and each dormitory also has a logbook for daily lapses: "Dust on the window ledge," or "Lint under Kolya's cot." The students get one day off a week (Sunday), and all must then...