Word: stopgaps
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...down business outlays and salaries, and government tax collections dropped from $15 million to $5 million a month. To help out, the U.S. is putting cash in the hands of laborers through $6,416,000 in emergency grants for road and irrigation projects. That is at best a stopgap move. The country, which barely got through with a gross national product of $824 million in 1964, will probably end up with a G.N.P. for 1965 of $700 million...
...successfully on 14 patients in four California hospitals. Researchers may some day learn how to help hemophiliacs make their own AHG, perhaps through transplants of AHG-producing tissue. But until more is known about what tissues are involved in that process, the newer AHG therapy offers a life-saving stopgap that may well become a staple of blood banks around the world...
...Gonna Move In." Limited disarmament was only a stopgap. McKeithen wanted civil rights demonstrations-which had been specifically sanctioned by federal court order-ended for 30 days so that a durable settlement could be sought. From the state capital at Baton Rouge, he sent his personal plane to Bogalusa to fetch A. Z. Young and Robert Hicks, Voters League president and vice president. "If we don't find the answers in 30 days, you can start demonstrating again," McKeithen told them. He vowed to rid Bogalusa of two of the noisiest white agitators: "I'll have them...
...debate continued, all parties launched into a few hurried, stopgap solutions aimed at saving the crops from disaster. Secretary Wirtz approved the employment of about 3,500 braceros (at $1.40 an hour). And, in a cooperative venture of the Labor Department, state government, farmers and schools, more than 700 high school boys have been recruited to help on the farms this summer. But none of this provides a real answer to the picking problem...
Storming the Palace. The question was how much Imbert could do about it. From the first, the U.S. had never considered him as more than an emergency stopgap. He was encouraged to form his loyalist junta at a time when only U.S. troops stood between the Dominican Republic and a rebel victory. Loyalist troops were demoralized; most of them refused to budge from their bases in the countryside. Imbert, at least, was one man ready to fight. In the first days of the revolt, he had collected some 300 troops, who stormed the National Palace and then held...