Word: makeshifts
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...plug this gap workmen are now digging up local pipelines in the Southwest, assembling them into a makeshift cross-country pipeline. In addition oilmen have asked once more for a 1,400-mile pipeline from Texas to New Jersey, which has been twice turned down by WPB and predecessors for lack of steel. Finally oilmen have still another idea: let the Navy convoy tankers up the East Coast. But that is something the Navy is not likely to do until it has more warships or fewer places to fight...
...odds the Crimson should have lost by at least ten goals, since they had won only one game all year, and that to a makeshift Boston Lacrosse Club crew while the home team was already recognized as the best in the Northeast...
...used them as if they were bombers, hid his anxiety for his youngster pilots by working at his hobby: woodcarving. His "Lady Bataanin," a shapely reclining nude, became a luck piece which pilots touched before going out after the Jap. They needed luck. The Jap bombed the two makeshift fields endlessly, was always overhead with fighters when they took off because he was close enough to hear their engines warming up. Like his pilots, General George took it all with a tight grin, hoped for better days...
...farmers the problem is serious. To get AAA loans, their wheat must be properly stored: in terminal, or country elevators, or on the farm. But Northwestern farmers already have some 70,000,000 bu. accumulated in makeshift storage bins, and much of this must soon be moved to better storage if it is to be saved...
...Moon Is Down (by John Steinbeck; produced by Oscar Serlin). Primarily intended for the stage, The Moon Is Down was first rigged up as a novel (TIME, March 9), and inside five weeks sold almost half a million copies. Theoretically the tailor-made play should beat the makeshift novel all hollow; actually it can't come near it. Steinbeck's fable of how some unnamed but obviously Nazi invaders take over an unlocalized but obviously Norwegian mining town, meet with icy resistance and are themselves worn down, never really comes to life in the theater...