Word: stopgaps
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...advance from the U.S. was earmarked for U.N. funds to aid underdeveloped countries, but the U.N. was free to use it as a stopgap to foot the rising bill for the United Nations' Congo operation, which is currently running at $10 million a month. The Russians are already more than $10 million in arrears on their other assessed payments and continue to duck any responsibility for the Congo operation. Asked to cough up, they offered nothing whatever except a piece of advice: the U.N. should...
...Sent to the White House a stopgap housing bill providing $500 million more in loans to colleges for new dormitories, extending FHA insurance for unsecured loans for home improvements beyond the Oct. 1 expiration date, and tacking on $50 million in new loans for municipal public facilities...
...that we have a missile "gap," may we presume that the nation will resort to stopgap measures...
Said a senior civilian missileman in California last week: "There is really nothing we can do in the short term in the way of getting something up there that will match or surpass the Russkies. We can rejigger things, but that would be a stopgap measure and not a program. The important point-the crucial point-is that decisions must be made now if the future is to bear fruit...
September Deadline. So far, TWA's 14 Boeing 707s are being operated on a stopgap, short-term leasing arrangement with Hughes Tool Co. Hughes will be pressed to decide by Sept. 30, when the lease arrangement expires, if he will raise the money to complete payment on the jets by a major refinancing of TWA or by other means. Whatever the choice, Hughes and TWA are in a far stronger position than they were eight months ago, when it looked as if Hughes might be forced to give up control of part of his holdings to raise money. Says...