Word: makeshift
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...messages on the floor of the Stock Exchange. Vice President John Haskell headed a detail that cleaned up the exchange at night. Curb President Truslow and Chairman Edward C. Werle padded around as night watchmen. In a, day or so, the exchanges were operating almost normally, though the makeshift staffs sweated to keep up with the heavy trading...
University of Peking students have been cooperating with the Rural Public Health Service of China for over a year with medical students performing as doctors and chemistry majors setting up makeshift diagnostic laboratories...
...record, 52 days ahead of last year. Shippers hoped that this meant an early opening for the rest of the Great Lakes, usually icebound till mid-April. It would come none too soon for steelmen. Their stockpiles of ore were so low that some mills were planning the expensive makeshift of shipping by rail from Minnesota's Mesabi range. The coal strike (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) would cut their needs if it lasted long enough. But steelmen kept their fingers crossed on that, as the Mackinaw steamed north to smash through the Straits of Mackinac, and later...
...Salonika last week, the huge concert studio of Radio Macedonia had been turned into a makeshift courtroom. Fenced in by a net of chicken wire, 128 rebel prisoners, captured after the shelling of Salonika last month, hunched together in close-packed seats. The judges, nine army officers, sat on the stage. Around them was stacked the evidence: rifles, machine guns, grenades. A mountain howitzer poked its muzzle out beside a grand piano...
...improvident family," it wrote, "which, failing to make both ends meet, first spends the accumulated capital of the past, then borrows from friends . . . and when their loans are exhausted, begins to pawn the furniture. . . . When a family faces bankruptcy, either it goes under to a life of perpetual makeshift and pauperism, or it restores its solvency by vigorous action-by buying less, by cutting down every kind of expense and by straining every nerve to sell more of its goods and services...