Word: repairman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When they think of these things, they remember the men who had to pay the price: the dead of Cavite, buried by the process of "collecting heads and arms and legs and putting them into the nearest bomb crater"; the lone repairman at Cebu who fixed their boat and calmly stayed behind to fight the Japs alone. And they think of some 60 men who were once members of their squadron-how their numbers were whittled down by days of incessant, hopeless action...
...line with their policy, expressed last fall, of ferreting out and exposing unfair business practices in the Square, the Consumers' Aid Bureau of the Student Council recently unearthed a case against auto repairman. George Snell, whom it has accused of general fraudulency and intent to deceive while working on the automobile of an unnamed Cambridge resident...
...than she first paid Snell for his repairs, and this amount the Consumers' Aid Bureau of the Student Council forthwith threatened to sue the "automotive engineer," as he calls himself. The dispute was referred to the Boston Motor Corps branch of the AAA, which returned a decision that the repairman was entirely in the wrong. After consulting his lawyer, Snell finally agreed to pay the balance to the car owner as soon as he was able...
...Venice, Fla., a farmer complained of static in his radio. A repairman found two rattlesnakes inside...