Word: scarcer
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...jazz, and the racial question is largely a confusion between life and art. Negroes say whites cannot play, when they mean that whites have always taken more money out of jazz than their music warranted. Whites complain of "Crow Jim" when what they mean is that work is scarcer than ever?even for them. The fact is that most of the best jazz musicians are Negroes and there is very little work to go around on either side...
...scarcities, they learned only two weeks before the meeting that fodder shortages last fall had forced farmers to slaughter 29 million hogs-more than 40% of Russia's entire swine herd-as well as record numbers of cattle and sheep, thus assuring that scarce meat will be scarcer than ever for the next few years...
...given month in the future. Experts study the weather, the size of plantings, inventories, probable demand and world political whims to make their judgments. For actual users of a commodity, the guess about the future is a practical way of stabilizing costs and protecting profits. If wheat gets scarcer and thus more expensive, the flour miller will make a profit on his futures contract-which is based on the price of wheat today-but the profit will be balanced by the fact that he will also have to pay more in the cash market for the wheat he actually needs...
Such channels are already scarce, and they will get scarcer still as more and gabbier satellites for communication, navigation and weather watching take to space. Many of the newcomers will have radio transmitters powered by solar cells, and unless they are silenced in some way, like Vanguard they will broadcast long after their original jobs are done. But to shush a satellite and clear its radio channel is not as simple as it sounds. A radio signal could be sent from the ground to tell the satellite to turn itself off, but this would require tying up a standby radio...
What it has to say, it must be noted, is not entirely reassuring. New magazines, and especially new student magazines, are notoriously difficult to establish-material is scarce and money is scarcer; and yet all too many of the pieces in the first issue of WR should have been rigidly rejected, even by the most desperate of aspiring editors...