Word: makeshifts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...came dramatically. In Indianapolis, the reporters following Stevenson were routed out of bed at 3 a.m. and assembled in a makeshift pressroom. They were handed thick envelopes containing a prepared statement by Stevenson and a bulky audit of the Stevenson-for-Governor Committee's 1948 campaign fund. Stevenson was not on hand; there was no press conference at which the reporters could question the candidate. The prepared statement closed with an announcement obviously calculated to take Stevenson off the defensive: both he and Vice-Presidential Nominee John Sparkman were going to make public their income-tax returns...
Both solutions are makeshift, and at least one of them is potentially corrupt. If the salaries of Congressmen and other public servants rose to a point commensurate with the importance of their work, essentially honest men like Nixon would need no angels...
...garden between the Blair house and the four-story brick home of his 93-year-old grandmother, Mrs. Louise de Koven Bowen. She wouldn't be disturbed; she was up at the family house near Waukegan. In the garden the Blair butler, Herman, set up a makeshift bar and plugged in a portable radio for the reporters...
Hurry-Up Job. The bomber started out 3½ years ago as a makeshift project. Five Boeing engineers had gone to Wright Field to show the Air Force plans for an intercontinental turbo-prop bomber on which Boeing had been working for two years. But the Air Force turned it down, said it wanted a long-range, all-jet bomber. The engineers holed up in a hotel room for two days and, using a bureau top as a drawing board and balsa wood from model airplane kits, put together a rough model of the kind of jet bomber Boeing could...
...radios" were crystal sets fashioned from bits of wire, smuggled crystals and makeshift diaphragms. Though primitive, the sets easily picked up broadcasts from a nearby transmitter tower of Manhattan's station...