Word: repairing
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Charles Edison thereupon found himself not only on a tough job but in a curious personal relationship with other Navy rankers. By statute and regulation the Assistant Secretary has under him the Navy's "shore establishments" (Yards & Docks; Engineering; Construction & Repair; Supplies & Accounts). He also has much to do with the Bureaus of Aeronautics (planes) and Ordnance (guns). But he -is exclusively responsible for none of these; the Chief of Naval Operations is also interested. And over both is the Secretary of the Navy. But he is exclusively responsible for none of these; the Chief of Naval Operations...
Probably damaged beyond repair was XP-38. But in the Lockheed factory, at Burbank, Calif., were all the drawings, dies and jigs needed to make many more like her. Pilots said the twin-engined pursuit ship had joined the Air Corps...
...concluding, Massachusetts' Governor Leverett Saltonstall and his executive council last week summarily dismissed Education Commissioner James G. Reardon, who week before had testified that he signed more than $400,000 in contracts to repair hurricane damage to teachers' colleges because former Governor Charles F. Hurley told him to (TIME...
...path of the hurricane that swept New England last fall were, among other things, several State teachers' colleges of which Mr. Reardon has charge. To repair the damage to them, it was estimated by the Education Department's business agent, one George H. Varney, would cost $16,500. When contracts for hurricane repair work, signed by Mr. Reardon, reached $410,232, the Massachusetts Federation of Taxpayers Association decided to investigate. What the federation discovered caused Attorney General Paul Dever to investigate and stop payment on most of the contracts and Governor Saltonstall last fortnight to demand Mr. Reardon...
...other architects to improve on the plans, commissioned an Advisory Council of 25-including employers, labormen, Government officials and consumers, chairmanned by Princeton Economist James Douglas Brown-to draw up plans for rebuilding the structure. Last week the Council handed back a much amended set of blueprints, designed to repair some of Social Security's major structural flaws...