Word: disappears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...morning an Australian rancher swept 28,000 poisoned mice off his veranda. In a neighboring village 544 tons of mice were killed in five months. Hordes of field mice-as many as 80,000 per acre-once appeared in southern California, disappeared after devastating the countryside. In pre-Nazi Norway a steamer ploughed for a quarter of an hour through shoals of mouselike lemmings swimming out to sea via the Trondheim Fjord. In France great plagues of voles (short-tailed field mice) appear approximately every five years, then abruptly disappear. One of Germany's periodic infestations of mice...
Interstellar Influence? In other countries the sudden disappearance of rodent swarms is less spectacular. Yet they always disappear. Zoologists still wonder why. In northern Canada "an outburst of mouse-meat" is always accompanied by an increase of foxes, hawks and other mouse-loving predators. But mouse cycles in Britain, where predators have been largely killed off, are as regular and violent as in wilder lands...
...discovered the New Deal when the Civil Works Administration "kidnapped" some of the poorer and lazier Garth Negroes and put them on relief. Later he saw his way of life disappear forever when the Tennessee Valley Authority forced the Garths to sell out, made the plantation a lake behind one of the TVA's dams...
These help to control the disease. But there is no practical cure for athlete's foot on the market. Often the infection will disappear of itself if left alone. Sometimes it will show up again from a new exposure. For the fungi are so widespread that to eradicate the disease it would be necessary, according to one doctor, "to sterilize the whole world...
Luxuries that are near-necessities will take some beatings, but there is still no sign that most of them will disappear, or even become seriously scarce. Among the least-threatened peacetime pleasures is cinema; the paper shortage has blown up (TIME, June 1), so newspapers and magazines will continue, unless advertising is taxed to death-in fact, in most cases they are officially regarded as strategic morale-builders. Cigarets are being produced in the most enormous, quantities in history (though they are also being taxed at record levels); cigars and pipe tobacco are booming, too. WPB has gone on record...