Word: overhauling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Last spring Rodzinski got ready for his New York job by suddenly firing or pensioning 17 of the Philharmonic's most important musicians (including Concertmaster Mishel Piastre and practically every soloist in the brass and reed sections). It was obvious that the orchestra was in for a complete overhaul...
...unchanged, suggested instead an international trusteeship for which the new Anglo-American Caribbean Commission might serve as a model, implied that if the experiment was a success the pattern might replace the battered mandate system throughout the colonial world. He spoke of studies going on to extend the franchise, overhaul the social and educational system, lift the economic level, encourage self-sufficiency...
...changed. Last week young (29) Lieut. David Hugh Conklin, the yard captain, could boast that his repairmen had long been giving shipyard service to any ship that could make port. Most of the yard's patients are Canadian craft, but ships of other countries also go there for overhaul. In Derry's shops and drydocks they can get repairs for anything, from broken optical equipment in binoculars and range finders to torpedo holes in their rusty hulls...
...Ginger Rogers, insists on calling them "Darling" on the telephone. But last week Hayward was also going places in aviation-he was a promoter, manager and part owner of Southwest Airways, a husky, 2 7-month-old enterprise in Phoenix, Ariz, which operates four big pilot-training centers, an overhaul depot for training planes and an air cargo line...
...British Government, still more from his friends, slapped up Falcon Field 25 miles east of Phoenix. This succeeded right off the bat -Southwest was on its way. To handle the Army's stepped-up pilot program Hayward expanded the original civilian school and built Thunderbird Field II. To overhaul training planes and engines he set up a big repair depot. To haul high-priority military cargo he started an airline over a censored Pacific Coast route. Meanwhile Southwest trained thousands of pilots (27 nationalities but mostly U.S., British and Chinese), expanded its staff time & again...