Word: disappeared
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other: a resident of Alaska for over 30 years, well-known and liked . . . was operating a restaurant in Valdez. . . . For reasons of his own he imported an oversupply of Jap dishwashers, cooks, second cooks, bakers. This superintelligent help would stay a few weeks, then disappear to be replaced by a fresh batch. Each employe was armed with a Leica or similar high-powered camera and spent most of his time away from his work taking pictures of the surrounding country...
...long as most civilian goods remain available, the OPA plan may work. There are, as yet, no reports of black markets, except in tires, and these might disappear if there is national gas rationing. There is chiseling on gasoline on the East Coast right now: in many places it is easy to get a full tank any time. But what will happen by autumn, when more goods are rationed, when many disappear entirely...
...their secret shelter for the duration, and teachers have had to stress timely notes in Fine Arts to hold their students' interest. Perhaps even the conspicuous sign. "Students are requested not to use this elevator . . . It is intended only for the use of the Faculty, staff, and guests," may disappear, and undergraduates may find that The Fogg offers something to those who want...
...provision is made for price adjustments in case unit volume falls off so sharply as to eliminate profits. This problem-like most of the rest of the order-hits low-price manufacturers and distributors hardest of all, may well mean that some narrow-margin merchandise will disappear from the market...
Author de Sales does not believe that capitalism will disappear in this conflict. "It is my belief that the vitality of capitalism is underestimated not only in America but in Europe, and that it can still undergo many transformations and adapt itself to many changes...