Word: makeshift
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Until the U.S. began to spend, Canada must struggle along with makeshift measures, notably import and foreign exchange restrictions. Last week, another makeshift was adopted. Prime Minister Mackenzie King told Parliament that a 91-day agreement had been reached with Britain on food contracts (TIME, Dec. 15). The stopgap deal wall expire on March 31-the day before ERP is expected to go into effect...
Fascinating Future. While Vishinsky spoke, the "administrative" machinery beyond the Assembly hall droned on, too. That machinery was housed between weirdly impermanent walls; here & there, gaping holes revealed innards of makeshift wirings and scaffolds; the air was scented with ink, and cafeteria whiffs carried the hypnotically even whir of typewriters and Mimeographing machines...
...French Premiers go-and they do go rather frequently-Socialist Paul Ramadier had lasted a long time; in fact, nearly a year. He was good at compromising and temporizing, at the small makeshift remedies which postpone disaster, and he was undeniably a man of good will. In the crunch between Gaullists and Communists, it was not enough. Last week Paul Ramadier resigned...
...composing room of Marshall Field's tabloid Chicago Sun. Deadlines came & went, but the battery of Linotypes stood silent. The printers were holding a marathon "chapel meeting," and the union was in no rush to adjourn. When the Sun went to press, nine hours late, it was in makeshift dress: lacking type, it ran pages of photo-engraved typewriting...
...Hughes F-11, he said, had been ordered by General Arnold as the best plane available at a time when makeshift photo-reconnaissance planes were taking heavy combat losses. Low priorities were primarily responsible for Hughes's failure to deliver. Elliott Roosevelt was "well qualified" to recommend the plane. Although the plane had been ordered over the opposition of the Army's technical command, there had been no favoritism. If there had been, said General Giles, "I should have been in a position to know...