Word: makeshifts
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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...
...deep. The old station, converted to a barracks, was gone; of the 320 soldiers who had been sleeping inside, all had disappeared but two. In the warm days that followed, bodies hidden beneath the tumbled walls began to decompose. To avoid disease, the dead were rushed through a makeshift morgue in the soccer stadium, buried in mass graves. After three days of searching, the number of bodies recovered stood at close to 500. But many hundreds of others who were in the area where blast force reached the disintegration point were missing and presumably dead, and 2,000 were injured...