Word: disappeared
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Republican National Convention opened in an atmosphere of finality. All over the U. S., prophecies were heard that, unless the Republican Party chose the right man and the right platform, it would disappear in a clap of political thunder...
...order that pacifist letters may not disappear entirely from your mail, and blind your magazine further to the fact that some still want peace, we send you this letter...
...rubber supply. U. S. failure to lay in this stockpile will look like a serious official blunder. No real alternative is to increase the use of reclaimed rubber from its present rate of 28.7% of consumption. For the supply of reclaimable rubber would eventually disappear if there were no fresh rubber imports. Remaining alternatives: 2) to grow rubber in this hemisphere, or 3) to mass-produce it synthetically...
...Europe, Hollywood uttered a piercing shriek over the decrease in its foreign revenues. Most of the belligerents forbade the export abroad of box-office receipts, but they went on piling up in the form of credits. Now Hitler is making it look as if these credits too might disappear. Result: the most frantic retrenchment in Hollywood history...
...conclusion Dean Donham warned against the disastrous results which, lacking the cooperation he asked, might come about. "If free and orderly civilization is not to disappear in the face of constantly accelerating change, a greater sense of responsibility and a better basis for human collaboration must be discovered and put into effect. A discontented democracy cannot survive. We have no time to waste...