Word: repairman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...replacement parts rose 52% from 1960 to 1967. At last week's hearing, the Senators were particularly disturbed by the discrepancy between prices for work covered by auto manufacturers' warranties and prices on nonwarranty jobs. The automakers pay for the warranty work and they allow the repairman only a 25% profit margin. But on other repair jobs, the markup runs 40% and more. Garages also tend to offer discounts to such big customers as insurance companies and auto-fleet owners. Volume discounts, of course, are common in all U.S. businesses, but Michigan Senator Philip Hart, the subcommittee chairman...
...usually tattered and dog-eared by the time somebody punched a hole in it and hung it in the family privy. When this particular catalogue appeared, the firm of Sears Roebuck and Co.-founded by Richard W. Sears, a former railroad-station agent, and Alvah Roebuck, a watch repairman -was four years old and prospering...
...aircraft repairman at Travis Air Force Base in California was admitted to the base hospital with severe malaise and nausea and passing dark urine. Liver function was abnormal, and a laboratory examination showed evidence of infectious hepatitis. Within 24 hours, not only the man's wife but all their eight children had telltale symptoms of hepatitis. A team of Air Force medics headed by Major Ralph D. Reynolds reports in the Archives of Internal Medicine that the virtually certain source was water leaking from the freeze balls. The water also carried whooping-cough germs, an amoeba and four species...
...covered table, cackled excitedly, flapped his "wings," then grew silent. "I laid myself an egg," he said moments later. "Then I hatched myself and gave birth to me." Joey spent six years at the Orthogenic School. Restored, he has since finished high school, and now works as a TV repairman...
...shoebill stork, barely acknowledges the presence of a female acquired especially for him. Instead, he saves all the normal male shoebill signs of affection- lowered head, lively clapping of the wooden-shoe-shaped bill, peculiar gulping noises -for his caretaker. Sometimes animal passions become actively embarrassing; recently, while a repairman was crouching in an emu's enclosure, the huge, ostrichlike Australian bird decided that the intruder was a female emu and behaved accordingly. At times the sexual play verges on the pathetic. "We have seen instances," says Hediger, who is also a professor of animal psychology and biology...