Word: makeshifts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...porteños really thought that the new price-control campaign would be any more successful in the long run than its predecessors. Years of cumbersome and inefficient state trade manipulation and Perónista economics had put strains on the old prewar price structure which no amount of makeshift shoring up could relieve. But for the time being this week, Buenos Aires merchants were dutifully keeping their eyes on the new price lists and waiting for the heat to die down...
...illumination afforded by the lights is the minimum for practice purposes, McRae said, but players agreed that the lights are a great improvement over the makeshift equipment of the past...
While the government tried to settle the dispute, some magazine publishers (daily newspapers were not affected) managed to get out token issues by makeshift methods. The New Statesman & Nation (TIME, Sept. 4), normally a comfortable 24 pages, squeaked out eight pages by photostated typewriting. The Economist, like many strikebound U.S. papers in the last few years (TIME, Dec. 1, 1947 et seq.), used Vari-Typing to produce a makeshift, 16-page issue for its 107th anniversary. It tartly warned the printers: "Union leaders would do well to observe that it is possible to get along without any compositors...
Adequate & Makeshift. The bill gave Harry Truman more authority than he had asked, but nowhere near the authority which Bernard Baruch recommended in his dramatic statement a month after the Korean war began (TIME, Aug. 7). In some respects the bill was adequate; in one respect it was a sorry makeshift...
...frigid blue haze, and the loss of oxygen would kill a man in 30 seconds if he didn't slap on his oxygen mask. A sleeper would be a dead duck. A more earthy problem: the toilet mechanism won't work at high altitude. The most practical makeshift is a bucket, and by unwritten law, the first man who needs it on the flight cleans it after landing. This makes the hours of flight a competition in painful restraint...