Word: makeshifts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Extra Guests. Within 24 hours, the 80° weather worked its therapy. Queasy correspondents aboard the destroyers gathered in makeshift press rooms twice daily to hear Press Secretary Jim Hagerty relay by radio-telephone optimistic reports from Canberra. White House Physician Howard Snyder found the President coughing only occasionally. His head cold was easing, his inflamed left ear cleared. So much better was Ike feeling that he stripped off his jacket, lazily drove golf-balls from a coco mat into a canvas shield stretched down the starboard side of Canberra's open deck while the ship lolled nearly dead...
FARMERS north of Louisville, Ky. were startled late one afternoon last fall by a strange spectacle coming down the B. & 0. railroad tracks. Rolling along at 3 m.p.h. was a Speno rail-grinding train. Six feet out from the last car was mounted a camera on a makeshift brace of 2 by 6 planks and spikes. Behind the camera a 6-ft.-5-in., 250-lb. man trotted along the ties, triggering the camera to catch the brilliant constellations of sparks thrown off by the rail grinders...
...means least, I want to congratulate you on the dramatic irony of veiling your courageous stand under the slogans of practicality and equality, catchwords which have long been used by the materialists who advocate complete destruction of our last mode for individual expression. I.B. SKRALLER, President, Makeshift Pen Company...
Many a fire station, church basement or community center across the U.S. last week presented a scene more suggestive of the Depression than of the most prosperous year in U.S. history. Lines of citizens edged slowly up to makeshift counters, walked out with armloads of milk, butter, flour, or more than a dozen other food stuffs-all for free. The giveaway grocer: the U.S. Department of Agriculture...
...rest of the line is rather makeshift, however, with the biggest weakness coming at end. Bill Callahan, the new right end, sat out all last year because of injuries and was unable to play in the 26-0 win over Bowdoin last week because of an injured toe. His under-study is sophomore Roger Feingold. At right end, Arlanson has been forced to use a converted quarterback, Dick Fortin...