Word: makeshift
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...Then came the 24th Division to Matsuyama. Kindhearted G.I.s brought the Spanish missionary food and clothing. One lieutenant from the Engineers rounded up a few volunteers, built a hut from scrap lumber and installed a makeshift stove. From somewhere an Army cot and blankets for the nuns appeared. Best of all, a few bags of Australian flour were produced. . . . Father Perez faced the winter with confidence...
...months, daily uranium output was stepped up from eight ounces to more than 500 lbs., and the cost dropped from $1,000 a lb. to $22. By 1943, bigger & better production methods were ready to take over, and Drs. Rentschler & Harden were able to quit their little makeshift. But in the emergency, they had supplied more than the asked-for three tons of pure uranium, for the first atomic pile...
...thing was certain: the U.S. would be using makeshift housing for a long time. The country was short at least 4,660,000 dwellings, would have to build at top speed for ten years to catch...
...there a city got to work. Example: Newark planned 300 temporary houses (needed: 7,000). Here & there a voice spoke out in alarm: Sociologist Louis Wirth, chairman of an emergency Chicago housing committee, prepared a careful report urging the city to convert factories, office buildings and war plants into makeshift shelter. But mostly the problem was just talked about...
...hinterland, from Chungking to Kunming, China's exiles were selling their makeshift furniture, preparing for the long trek home, for the sadly happy task of picking up the old threads again, however tangled and torn. Some gathered on the Yangtze banks, searching for rafts to float downstream. Others pushed carts and trudged by foot along the roads leading from the citadels of resistance. The tide of humanity, some 25,000,000 strong, which had flowed from the coast to the interior over an area half as big as the U.S., was rolling back again...