Word: interims
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During the war Republic operated the plant for the Defense Plant Corp., after the war continued to operate it under an interim lease. The WAA plant supplied iron for Republic's Cleveland mills and that, in turn, made it possible for Republic to sell pig iron from its other blast furnaces to hundreds of Northeastern foundries. With a defense program on, White did not think that the Government would disturb this complex setup...
Finally, the assembly heard reports on the work of missions sent out by the interim commission that preceded the present permanent organization (TIME, April 5). Said Dr. Neville Gordon, pipe-smoking British head of WHO field services, about DDT-spraying planes in Greece: "Our slow, low-flying planes could be shot down like ducks by anybody with a gun on a hill [but] the rebels even sent guides through the lines to our spraying teams, asking them to come up and spray rebel-held villages." In China, a WHO mission, with authorization of the Central government, is working in Communist...
...Herbert Hoover's 2,903 appointees. But that was in a lame-duck session after Hoover had already been defeated for reelection. With President Truman already hard-pressed to find good men for Government jobs, the Republican decision meant that he would find it even harder to fill interim vacancies for the next eight months...
...Hospital. His vacant Senate seat gave the Longs an easy and unexpected means of strengthening their political hold on Louisiana. Governor Earl prepared to appoint a friend-probably a Monroe oil millionaire named William C. Feazel-on condition that the appointee would not run for the office after the interim term expired. In November, having achieved the Senate's 30-year minimum age, Nephew Russell would run, with every chance of election...
...years pass, she marries a rich nobleman, and then bumps into Jourdan at the opera. Although the interim is supposed to be nine years, neither Miss Fontaine nor Jourdan have changed at all, so the audience is just as surprised as the heroine that he doesn't remember her. She tries to remind him but he remains buffaloed. Soon thereafter the son dies and, as she feels herself dying too, she pens him a long, long letter...