Word: impendingness
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The situation is so serious that Leon Henderson & Co. have put on a campaign: ''Buy Coal Now"- or maybe never. Main reason is an impending shortage, not of coal but of transport: railroads, now carrying fuel because of submarine attacks on shipping, will be too busy next fall...
The League of Nations still carries on in Geneva with a skeleton staff. Reported the New York Times last week: "Some 700 periodicals are classified and read on reception. . . . The health services supply 'friend or foe' a weekly report on impending bacillus invasion threats."
Despite the rumor that a shortage of chlorine for the swimming pool was impending, officials at the Indoor Athletic Building announced yesterday that there would be no curtailment of Crimson aquatic activities for lack of the vital germicide.
"An impending shortage of trained educational workers is expected to open positions of leadership in the field as a result of the war emergency," the announcement said. "The new Harvard program is designed to help successful teachers get advanced training readily in as short a time as possible and in...
*According to one account, the Nazis' cable to the German Consul General in the Indies, notifying him to warn German ships of the impending invasion, was held up by the Dutch in Batavia.