Word: makeshifts
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...memorable Washington feud with White House Favorite Harry Hopkins. Ickes wanted the Depression relief funds spent through his Public Works Administration on big projects that would pay for themselves, like TVA and the Boulder and Grand Coulee dams. Hopkins, the welfare worker, wanted to push out the money in makeshift WPA projects, so most of it would go directly into wages. They both shoveled out billions while they grappled for power, but it was Hopkins who eventually got the upper hand...
...stock of misfortune. They are the hapless and for the most part innocent victims of man's inhumanity to man: the 875,000 Arab refugees from Palestine and their opposite numbers, 200,000 Jewish immigrants, admitted to Israel but not yet absorbed. They huddle in tents and makeshift shelters, queue for meager rations. Last week Nature added to their misery, in a howling of winds and a downpour of rain such as the Middle East hadn't seen for a quarter-century...
...Louis F. Fieser, Sheldon Emery Professor of Organic Chemistry, remarked yesterday. "In prohibition days there were many devices." Now there is no longer, any need for makeshift, unsafe devices. One last word of caution, however. The CRIMSON's consultants wish to point out that the entire process, of course, is highly illegal...
...weeks ago, Robert felt a tightening in his chest whenever he took water through his tube. The doctors at Columbia decided on a second operation. This time there were no slipups. There, curled in his chest, was the free end of the makeshift esophagus, still healthy and unshriveled. After six hours in the operating room, Robert was wheeled out with a working esophagus. Last week he swallowed the first home-cooked square meal of his life: turkey and trimmings topped off with ice cream and cake...
...present condition of the Business School is intolerable except as a temporary makeshift. We need funds at once for the construction of buildings to house a school of 1,000 and to develop laboratory facilities...