Word: overhauling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...January, the Maritime Commission caught it just in time, awarded a $1,400,000 temporary six-month subsidy, ordered the leaky financial hull scraped and calked before it would consider a permanent subsidy. When the six-month grant expired, the Dollar crew had not completed the required financial overhaul, proposed instead counter plans that smacked of the old Captain's brass. Typical suggestion was that for the old Captain's bargain ships, on which $7,000,000 was still due, the Government should pay $18,500,000. When this sort of bargaining failed, the line decided to surrender...
...Star's Berengaria (launched as the German Imperator in 1912) last week sailed empty back to England on what may be her last Atlantic crossing-branded a fire hazard by the U. S. Bureau of Marine Inspection and Navigation. Once last year the Berengaria caught fire during an overhaul. In Southampton last month flames blazed for two hours below decks, burned out a section of the Berengaria's, third class, but did not prevent her sailing to the U. S. on schedule. While she was tied up in Manhattan last week a fresh fire broke...
...Princeton, he spotted the first hole in the clouds since Kansas City, dropped through it just as his engine conked out. The plane nosed over in the forced landing, but damage was negligible and the research gains were tremendous. After the Aviation Show the "overweather" plane retired for an overhaul. Last week, with a radical new fuel injection system made by Eclipse Corp. that eliminates the carburetor, it was given its first tests by President Frye in person preparatory to more visits to the substratosphere...
When a motorized military unit moves into the field, a complete repair unit follows not far behind to overhaul any piece of fouled equipment on the spot. Similarly, when a,battle fleet goes to sea the auxiliary service fleet that follows in its wake includes a repair ship ready to make repairs as best they can. The usefulness of modern repair ships is restricted since they can make only minor or temporary repairs on smaller craft. To correct such major difficulties on a capital ship as a broken propeller or rudder or a loosened plate below the waterline, the ship...
...delegates chosen by the New York electorate met at a Constitutional Convention at Albany to overhaul the State's Constitution. As it turned out, no revisions were made. Unaltered was an old constitutional clause making it mandatory for the electorate to vote every 20 years, beginning in 1916, on the question: "Shall there be a convention to revise the Constitution and amend the same?" In 1916, with the failure of the previous year fresh in mind, the electorate voted No. Last week, 20 years having elapsed, the question again appeared on every New York ballot. Rare was the voter...