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...from relatives in Hawaii, Guam or the U.S. The agents offered an irresistible bargain: they were ready to buy up the money orders, paying three pesos per dollar (the official exchange rate is only two, but the Reds did not mind spending pesos freely in order to get far scarcer dollars). Endorsed over to middlemen for the Chinese, the orders were then smuggled to Hong Kong by plane and deposited in U.S. banks...
...years past, the flight jackets and faded khaki have been growing scarcer on the nation's campuses. This week, a final contingent of World War II veterans rushed to register for courses, but by Wednesday, the cut-off date, it was all over. For most of the veterans, it is now too late to begin further schooling under the G.I. Bill of Rights...
When lettuce prices tumbled from $6 to $2.25 a crate last month, the growers of California's Salinas Valley, the "Salad Bowl of America," started plowing under half their big crop. For a few days, the plan worked fine. As lettuce became scarcer, prices stabilized. But then the Justice Department started an antitrust suit against the growers. Last week the trustbusters got a court injunction stopping the growers from destroying lettuce...
...sparrow hosts were already declining, anyhow; the early years of the century had been their Golden Age. Their downfall was not the Audubon Society, but the automobile. As horses grew scarcer & scarcer, sparrows grew scarcer too. Now they survive in cities mostly on the leavings of pigeons...
Turn off the hot tap, turn off the cold; Water is precious, scarcer than gold, Remember the supply is very very short, Don't use a gallon when you can use a quart...