Word: makeshift
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...needed 450 gallons of gas weighing 2,700 Ibs.? He has never tested it with more than 300 gallons, for fear a tire would blow out on landing. Can he fly with the big gas tank in front of the cockpit, and no visibility ahead except for a makeshift periscope? Can he navigate a whole ocean with simple compasses? Even Nungesser and Coli have been lost over the Atlantic. Why should he succeed...
...huge new public-works projects are not makeshift boondoggles, hastily thrown together, as in Depression days, just to spend money fast and create jobs. They represent real economic needs. All over the U.S., soaring population has created a need for new schools, hospitals, airports, water and sewage systems. With the nation's population rising at the rate of 2,600,000 a year, the needs are pyramiding. They are most acute in Southern California, the fastest-growing region in the U.S. Los Angeles now has a population of about 4,000,000, expects...
...then watch through periscopes while their torpedoes exploded prematurely, did not explode at all, or headed back at them. The Navy's Bureau of Ordnance is currently readying a new type of torpedo which will "do everything." But until it is ready, the newest subs live with a makeshift, inefficient arrangement for firing old-style torpedoes. "To hell with the torpedo which will do everything," muttered a submariner last week. "Just get us a torpedo that will do anything...
...bring down the government. This week, when Laniel's reforms were finally announced, the Reds ordered 270,000 Communist railroad men (more than half the total force) to stop the trains again. In some provincial towns, police and soldiers pitched in to sort the mail and started makeshift deliveries, but in Paris the mail sacks mounted higher and higher...
...first dawn of peace, a handful of Chinese started up the slope toward Marine positions 25 yards away. Carefully the Reds wound through the debris of war: unexploded hand grenades, live mortar shells, empty machine-gun belts, smashed helmets-and the bodies. The marines let the Chinese pass a makeshift barrier, but spurned proffered Chinese cigarettes. Then one marine pointed at a Chinese corpse lying head down in a marine trench, and at a mutilated body of a marine on the Chinese side. He swept his hand back and forth to signify a trade. The Chinese agreed. For three silent...