Word: dearth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...divided last week as to C. F. C.'s potential value. Its supporters point out that it will provide commodity financing in regions where ordinary banking facilities have all but disappeared, and where banks are unable or reluctant to extend further credit. Scoffers doubt the reality of a dearth of bank credit for sound borrowers, point out the huge pool of R. F. C. funds and the failure of eligible borrowers to step up for direct loans from the Federal Reserve in large numbers...
...first time at a National Convention, photographers with their safe new flashlamps were permitted to ply their trade up & down the aisles. The Associated Press cannily hired ambulances to rush its pictures from the Stadium. For all this enterprise and expenditure, there was an obvious dearth of hot news, but many a famed correspondent had a good time writing about and talking to famed colleagues, also had fun being looked at. For nowadays when the Fourth Estate goes to cover a show it takes its own show along...
Management and Labor discreetly muffled their words last week on the eve of their meeting. But there was no dearth of straws in the wind. Significant was the fact
Nursing has become an overcrowded profession, not because of a dearth of sick people to attend, but because of purses too slim to pay for nursing services, and because of too many nurses. The average private nurse works less than eight months a year. Her average income for the whole year is about $1,800. or $35 weekly. Nonetheless, the nursing schools threw into the surfeited market 20,000 girls last June, four times the number of young doctors graduated from the medical schools at the same time...
Calls for teachers have fallen off, except for teachers of Science and Mathematics in secondary schools. And for such teaching there is a dearth of adequately trained applicants. The same inadequacy of trained personnel applies to headships of private girls' schools...