Word: overhauling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trouble when the Winnie Mae mired in mud. It was 14 hours before a detachment of soldiers with a U. S.-made tractor pulled the plane out. At Khabarovsk Post and Gatty deliberately sacrificed another 26 hours of their ahead-of-schedule time by giving their plane a minute overhaul, and taking 12 hours' sleep in preparation for the hazardous 2,100 mi. dash to Nome. They took off in the face of doubtful weather over the Gulf of Tartary. the Kamchatka Peninsula and the Bering Sea. This is the season of the 24-hour Arctic day. They reached...
Echo-Meter. From its great hangar at Lakehurst, N. J., where it had undergone winter overhaul, the Navy dirigible Los Angeles emerged last week, its new coat of silver paint gleaming in the sun, and cruised in preparation for its flight to Panama for the Navy war games. As new equipment the Los Angeles carried a radio-echo-log, a finely adjusted altimeter which indicates the height of the craft by the time required for a radio signal to reach the ground and rebound to a receiving device...
Last victory of the week for the Bevin jaw was the Congress's adoption without a dissenting vote of his resolution demanding that the Labor Government overhaul the Department of National Health. "Scandalous conditions exist!" he cried. "In the winter poor people have to wait so long in queues at the free clinics that they catch worse colds than the ones they came to be cured of. . . . They are constantly made to feel the humiliation of their poverty . . . supercilious doctors . . . shame...
...present the Club is training several men under the general tutelage of Emerson Carpenter, aviation instructor, who has soloed four men within the last month. The motor of the Club ship has been replaced in the plane after a 250 hour overhaul...
...Navy is less than 84,000. The officer strength (commissioned and warrant) is less than 7,000. The Shore Stations, etc., Detached Units, Special Service Squadron and Asiatic Fleet account for, normally, somewhere between 30 and 45% of the total strength. This is governed by conditions such as overhaul periods, etc. The joint maneuvers of the Scouting and Battle Fleets are not participated in by all units of these floating organizations. This arises from the necessity of repairs, overhaul and other conditions affecting the vessels attached to these fleets. From participation in several former joint maneuvers engaged...