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Operation Ivory Soap was a classified United States military project to provide forward theatre support for aircraft repair and maintenance during World War II in the Pacific Theatre of Operations. Six Liberty ships were converted into floating shops to repair aircraft. They were designated Aircraft Repair Units (Floating).
University Village is a housing community for married students. It is located within the city limits of Albany about two miles (3 km) northwest of the main Berkeley campus. The demolition of older buildings and their subsequent replacement with new, more expensive apartment units has prompted student protests.
The East 180th Street Yard and Maintenance–Repair Shop; viewed from East 180th Street station. The East 180th Street Yard is situated at 1145 East 180th Street in the West Farms neighborhood of the Bronx, just east of the Bronx Zoo. The yard consists of seven storage tracks (numbered 4 thru 10) and an adjacent 6-track (numbered 11 thru 16 ...
Notes Photograph SE&CR: 0-6-0 T: Wainwright P class: No. 27 Primrose. Built in 1910, and last worked in 1974. Arrived at the Bluebell in 1961. An overhaul was prepared and started in 1978 with the locomotive being dismantled, but it was paused for over 30 years due to the overhaul and maintenance of other locomotives before being restarted in 2012.
Founding. In 1866, the College of California, a private institution in Oakland founded by Andover and Yale alumnus Henry Durant, purchased the land that comprises the current Berkeley campus, and the State of California established an agricultural, mining, and mechanical arts college, which existed only as a legal entity to secure federal funds ...
Work on West Field commenced on 1 February. Two parallel airstrips were developed, 1,600 feet (490 m) apart, each 8,500 feet (2,600 m) long and 500 feet (150 m) wide. The two runways, 53,000 feet (16,000 m) of taxiways, 220 hardstands and 251 administration, maintenance and repair buildings.
Dan Osborn is a U.S. Navy veteran, steamfitter, industrial mechanic, labor union leader and an independent politician.. As president of Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union Local 50G, he led the strike at Kellogg's Omaha plant in 2021.
Maintenance Engineering is the discipline and profession of applying engineering concepts for the optimization of equipment, procedures, and departmental budgets to achieve better maintainability, reliability, and availability of equipment. Maintenance, and hence maintenance engineering, is increasing in importance due to rising amounts of ...