Word: disappearers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although there is an adequate liquor supply for a medium term war (warehouses bulge with enough to last four years), some changes in drinking habits are on the way. Both gin and blended whiskies will presently disappear. Straight whiskey alone will remain. A proposed $2-a-gallon Federal tax boost would end the sale of popular dollar-a-pint whiskies, forcing many to drink cheap beer and wine...
Where to Spend It? Military law allows few pleasure domes. Sporting ladies are scarce. Stores have no difficulty selling anything they can get. Books disappear from shelves as quickly as the dealers put them there. Customers ask music dealers for records of Jingle, Jangle, Jingle or He Wears a Pair of Silver Wings but are satisfied with songs as old as Cheek to Cheek. Movie theaters are packed with customers delighted to see The Courtship of Andy Hardy...
...American consumer, addicted for years to swearing by Camay, Camels, and Camphor, Ice, is in for a rude shock. His favorite brands may soon disappear from the market if the plans of WPB for concentrating civilian production in a few "nuclear" plants is adopted. Worried by the wastefulness of permitting every factory in an industry to spend most of its energies on war production and some of it in supplying civil markets, the concentration committee is drafting a program to allocate all non-essential production to a few plants which will give it their full attention. Brand-names and trademarks...
...intentionally on the jagged, crevasse-slashed icecap. Parunak and Balchen, in a PBY flying boat, surveyed for six days, drop ping sleeping bags and food, never daring a landing. The stranded men watched and bit chapped lips. On the seventh day they saw the flying boat swoop low and disappear into the snow. Pilot Parunak had found a "dimple" of water filling an ice valley twelve miles away, had chanced a landing on this temporary lake. He set Balchen's rescue party ashore, then took off again to direct them to the Fortress. The rescue party fought...
When the rodents increase, foxes increase. So do hawks, snowy owls, martens and even caribou (because the wolves eat the rodents, which are easier to catch than caribou). When the rodents disappear, the foxes die off, and the snowy owls-"a mass of transfigured lemming" -emigrate to the U.S. Wolves attack the caribou herds again, and survival becomes harder for the caribou-hunting Indians...