Word: stopgaps
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...Atlantic seaboard. When the first 50 tankers went, oilmen tightened their belts by speedups in tanker service, heavier loading, greater use of pipeline and rail. The loss of 100 more tankers would cut the daily intercoastal tanker haul to less than 600,000 bbl. This is a chasm no stopgap methods can bridge...
...Washington dapper Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles telephoned equally dapper Ambassador Felipe Espil of Argentina and Brazilian Ambassador Carlos Martins. The three went into a huddle, emerged with a stopgap proposal: Peru and Ecuador should each withdraw 15 kilometers (9½ mi.) from their present frontier stations, cease hostilities, submit their dispute once more to Argentine-Brazilian-U.S. mediation...
These links will provide 200,000 more kw. (for example, by bringing Florida's current excess power to needy Georgia)-about equal to the current capacity of giant Wilson Dam, but a mere stopgap in relation to the South's increasing needs. FPC says these links can be built in six months; others say material shortages may mean it will take two years. OPM indicated that priorities would be granted wherever needed. An eighth interconnection-between TVA and Cincinnati Gas & Electric Co.-was "recommended" (FPC is wary of "ordering" another independent Government agency to do anything...
...task forces"-units of battleships, carriers, cruisers, destroyers on special missions. This conception requires more carriers than the Navy has in service and in sight. A carrier shortage is therefore one of the biggest holes in the Navy's preparations for war (especially in the Atlantic). One temporary stopgap: conversion of merchant vessels to carrier duty...
...base, raise upwards of $1,000,000,000 a year in new taxes (TIME, June 17), Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau welcomed a thorough, time-taking overhaul of the tax system-should Congress care to stay in session long enough to do the job. The House passed the stopgap bill anyway, sent it to the restive Senate...