Word: stopgaps
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...Meanwhile Claude Wickard suggested a stopgap: let them eat cheese and thereby ease the Government-subsidized glut in the cheese market...
...prescription: a promise of post-war independence. But to President Attasi the Fighting French were political nobodies; he refused to negotiate with them. Ousting Attasi and his ministers, Catroux named as president a Syrian whose chief virtue was his willingness to negotiate: Mohammed Tageddine el Hassani. A flimsy, stopgap government, el Hassani's had little popular support, left Syrian Nationalists free to ogle the Axis...
...that the student's dollar goes for what it was intended. This year, P. B. H., where most of the money ends up, allotted $300 more to scholarships, a year ago, considerably more to various charities, and sufficient funds to main the Placement Office, which has provided a necessary stopgap. So no one who has pladged his dollar or five dollars can be skeptical about the good use of his sacrifice...
Most of them are "Liberty" or EC2 ships, stopgap craft, built to beat Germany. Their commercial life expectancy is only five to seven years-about a third that of normal merchant vessels. No shipowner gives a nautical damn about their lack of line. But he does complain about their waddling gait (ten to twelve knots), their ancient innards (old-style reciprocating engines), and most of all their appetite (estimated 40% more than the oil rations required by a turbine-driven ship...
...order was obviously a stopgap. Before the East's supply of oil became critically short (on account of a tanker shortage), oilmen expected Washington would finally have to take on itself the nasty task of rationing individuals. The man at the pump obviously could not do the job in a way satisfactory to his customers or to the Government...