Word: stop-gap
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...China." The little knot of bitter-enders took up the cry. But the Senate, urged on by South Dakota's Republican Senator Chan Gurney, resolutely beat back a last desperate attempt to wreck the draft law, approved (6940-8) a one year's extension to replace the stop-gap bill which expires July...
...strike was the lives of thousands of Europeans who are depending on grain which last week lay useless in American freight cars. The strike could not continue and under great pressure the President took drastic action which scared the Railway Brotherhoods back to work. As a strictly temporary stop-gap Mr. Truman's program is barely tolerable, and as a permanent policy it is unthinkable...
...Stop-gap arrangements were being hurried. The White House approved the building of wooden barges to carry crude oil on inland waterways from Florida. A House committee approved a bill for a pipeline from Florida's west coast to Jacksonville, another for improvement of a Florida barge canal. Harold Ickes announced that a beginning had been made on relocation of two existing pipelines, which would send an additional 25,000 barrels daily to the East by July 15. But real relief would be a major transportation operation-and that...
...Committee is functioning as a stop-gap only at the present time, it was emphasized, since the University is preparing a regular system for Volunteers starting after the vacation. Plans not being definitely settled yet, it is "uncertain" whether or not the student committee will fit into the permanent picture...
...stop-gap PBH office, which will help put the Class of '42 in contact with possible employers, will probably not be required for more than a year...