Word: stopgaps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...next leader, the divided Labor Party, which went down to crushing defeat in this year's general election, has just about decided on Cockney Herbert Morrison, Attlee's longtime lieutenant and a seasoned party organizer. But Herb Morrison, at 67, is destined to be a stopgap party chief...
...fight those radicals? Los Angeles public health officials could suggest only stopgap measures: 1) see a doctor if eyes or throat are severely irritated, 2) bathe eyes with eye drops, 3) visit a friend who has air conditioning, or go to a movie, 4) relax so as to breathe less...
...hesitant Bundestag. By the time he got through, parliament kept for itself the power to pass on the Defense Ministry's organization, limited recruitment to 6,000 men (3,000 officers, 1,500 noncoms, 1,500 enlisted men), and prohibited the formation of combat units. Under this stopgap bill, which would expire next March, the volunteers would be used only to staff the Defense Ministry and military missions to SHAPE, to maintain military equipment received under the U.S. aid programs, and to attend courses at allied training camps. Jaeger also wrote a separate bill setting up a selection board...
Tousle-haired Socialist Ollenhauer was bristling over Adenauer's curt, 250-word "volunteers bill," a stopgap measure by which der Alte hoped to have the beginnings of a German army in time for the Big Four conference. Months of legislative deliberation would be needed to create a legal structure for Adenauer's ultimate goal of a twelve-division army and 1,300-plane air force. Meanwhile, promised...
With the auxiliary discounted as a backstop, Canada's first-line air defenses are thin. The bulk of R.C.A.F. fighter strength (300 aircraft) is assigned to NATO in Europe; only nine understrength interceptor squadrons (140 jets) are stationed in Canada. As a stopgap measure, the R.C.A.F. plans to bring home squadrons up to full strength (216 aircraft) by year's end. Canadian and U.S. defenses are well coordinated, and in a crisis Canada's planners presumably would look for help from the south. Yet the hard fact is that if A-bombs start to fall...