Word: repairman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Orleans, doctors had told the couple that their twin babies had been born blind. Andrew Hoffmann, telephone repairman, and his wife, Beverly, did not give up hope. They chartered a plane to New York to see if specialists could cure their sons (TIME, May 2). The U.S. followed the case with sympathy and admiration for the courageous parents. Last week, in the New Orleans States, Mrs. Hoffmann told how she and her husband had met their trial. Said...
...weeks Mike's parents shared a 24-hour vigil by his bedside. His father gave up his job as an auto repairman, his mother turned over the care of her other five children to a social worker. The hospital set up a special kitchen so that Mrs. Rector could cook the protein-rich eggs and hamburgers her son required to build up his ravaged tissue, coax him into eating...
Lieut. Leroux and four other gendarmes drove to Bazouges, where Leroux and his sergeant climbed up the church bell tower. There they found a bicycle repairman and a carriagemaker smoking their pipes and swinging the clapper against the big bell...
Reporter Irwin Rosten confronted each repairman with a portable radio "in perfect operating condition" except for a simple short circuit "in plain view." Some shops recommended repairs ("practically no two alike"): "a new condenser," "a short in the transformer," "a realignment job," "the oscillator is out of whack." Range of estimates: from $9 to $15. None mentioned the short circuit. What's more, the "radio servicemen" surreptitiously wrecked the volume control, the tuning control, two tubes and the batteries, putting the set "completely out of commission...
...Recently it has been very difficult for shoemakers or shoe-repairmen to obtain leather for repair. In Okayama Prefecture a shoe-repairman noticed that a cuttlefish is shaped much like the sole of a shoe. He painted in black ink on dry cuttlefish and used them as shoe soles." (Price of dry cuttlefish: 7 to 10 yen; cost of shoe-repairing...