Word: disappear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week, the Government's index of wholesale prices had dropped, mainly because of shakeouts in commodities. Wool had skidded to $2.15 a lb. compared to $3.80 five months ago. Cotton men, who screamed early this year that if cotton were frozen at 45? a lb., their profits would disappear, were now glad to sell for 35?. Result: the big makers of bed sheets last week cut their prices from...
...guano birds is ceaseless. Off the coast, cold water wells up from the bottom of the sea bringing nutrients that support vast shoals of fish on which the guano birds feed. Sometimes a shift of wind or ocean currents brings warm water to their islands. Then the fish disappear, and the birds starve...
...problem to someone else. When "the flap is on," a process which can be set off by as little as a Congressman's letter or a sudden demand from a Chief of Staff, he responds by producing a protective cloud of paper in which he can safely disappear in a smother of initials and information copies...
...Pennsylvania's Chairman Martin Clement goes even further. Says he: "The locals will all gradually disappear, and the sidelines will disappear as far as passenger service is concerned. The main services [e.g., through New York, Washington, Chicago, Detroit, etc.] must of necessity be operated at a profit...
Gutierrez' forecast: with 140 million gallons of water rushing past it every day, the submerged part of Rivera's mural will completely disappear within ten years. Diego's comment: "Tell him to go to hell...