Word: stopgaps
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...instructions from the central committee new President Zapotocky appointed as Prime Minister Viliam Siroky, boss of the Slovak party, and, as leader of the party secretariat, another party hack, Antonin Novotny. Since none of the three had any real stature, this seemed to be a stopgap arrangement. It was also a rebuff to Gottwald's ruthless, ambitious, unpopular son-in-law, Alexei Cepicka, Defense Minister who failed to move up an inch. But perhaps Cepicka was a sleeper-he might get a boost later...
...Budapest and try his luck on the railroads. "There were many new locomotives on the roads then," he said, "but they were all heading east to Russia. All we had were old 'Truman 525.' " So called in derision, these were obsolescent U.S. locomotives sent over as stopgap aid before the Iron Curtain fell. Most were falling apart. The responsibility for keeping them rolling on short rations of coal and lubricants fell on their engineers...
...Stopgap. The U.N.'s millions are a stopgap, not a solution. Four years of living on a dole has turned the Arab refugee camps into centers of Communism and extremist agitation. Even the unsavory Grand Mufti, who used to control the camps, has recently lost out to the more radical agitators. So long as the refugee camps exist, stability in the Middle East is impossible...
...International Ladies' Garment Workers Union; around it cluster intellectuals like Adolf Berle and Reinhold Niebuhr. The Liberal Party fights Tammany, but on national and statewide issues usually lines up with the Democrats. When it seemed clear that Cashmore would be nominated, the Liberals balked. They nominated a stopgap candidate, Columbia University's Dr. George S. Counts. Party leaders admitted that they might shift to another candidate before election. What made the Liberals maddest was the calm Democratic prediction that the Liberals would come around to Cashmore-as well they might...
...Development program. Some seven such loans, totalling $58,300,000, are now held up. Last week, seeking ways to tide itself over the trade crisis, Rio was considering borrowing up to $200 million from the U.S. Government against Brazil's gold reserve. At best this would be a stopgap. It would not help Brazil develop its own rich resources...