Word: repairer
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...railways have "collapsed." There were 30,000 accidents during the Soviet fiscal year just ended, 1,000 deaths, 2,000 people maimed for life. During August alone 384 engines and 1,638 cars were wrecked beyond repair. But the railways, driven by the fierce will of Dictator Stalin to fulfill the Five-Year Plan, hauled 3,500,000 more carloads this year than last...
...group of 50 Harvard graduates announced that they would raise $5,000 to give to the scrubwomen. This plan failed, and the case was considered concluded until the latest step. The letter of the committee headed by Lamont, on October 24, explained the aim of the fund, "to repair the original injustice and to convince the general public that a more humane and generous temper characterizes Harvard than that which has been displayed by the present administration...
...Brooklyn, John Gentrio, barber, called Herman Finsel, plumber, to repair a leaking pipe. Plumber Finsel went back to get a gasket; Barber Gentrio held his thumb on the pipe five hours. Later, when Plumber Finsel came to the barber shop to have his beard shaved, Gentrio shaved half of it; departed, taking all the razors in the shop to be honed; stayed out five hours...
...population of 22,835-whereas big Greenland with an area 84 times as great (46,740 sq. mi.) has a population of only 14,355. "In my opinion," said Prime Minister Stauning, "there is room in the Faroe Islands for private initiative and the investment of capital to establish repair stations equipped with large petroleum and benzine tanks to supply the Diesel-engined fishing vessels which are becoming very numerous." Of Greenland's trade the Prime Minister said cautiously: "It is well to wait and see how the country develops. The seal industry which was once very prosperous...
...freight cars,* it is the largest owner and operator of freight cars ? 40,000 of them, which it leases out to various railroads. Of these, 45% are tank cars, the rest are divided principally among stock, glass-lined milk and refrigerator cars. The company through subsidiaries owns ten repair shops far-flung through out the U. S., operates 5,000 freight cars abroad, has the largest storage terminal in the U. S. (at Goodhope, La.?a town built by the company...