Word: scarcer
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...Even in stringent wartime, Japan did not succeed in feeding herself. Without food from the overseas empire, hungry Japanese may be anything but docile. MacArthur may permit them to buy food abroad: in exchange they might sell textiles to China and other Far Eastern countries where clothes are even scarcer than food. But for a long time Japan's exports to those countries will be in reparations, not trade...
...streets. Shells hit the overstaffed Russian legation, the Syrian Parliament building, the plush Orient Palace Hotel. A U.S.-built Baltimore bomber flew overhead, dropped a few bombs. After the Senegalese had done their work with machineguns and mortars, they pillaged the shops and bazaars, taking radios, scarce food and scarcer clothing...
...rare good luck, for $50 a pair; cotton sheets required a priority granted only to newlyweds or families recently bombed out.) They preferred to spend coupons on the less alluring "woolies" which kept them warm in unheated offices and homes. For the same reason, woolen underwear was scarcer...
...quinidine (hitherto derived chiefly from a variety of the cinchona tree, growing only in Java) from quinine itself. Since widely used atabrine has largely displaced quinine in the treatment of malaria, part of the stockpile of quinine can thus be turned to good use by converting it to the scarcer drug...
Coal, the No. 1 U.S. heating fuel, is getting scarcer every day, although production is up nearly 6% over last year. The reason for the scarcity is increased demand and lack of manpower. Old men are working the mines; when they quit or die, almost no younger men are available. This means that eastern and southern homes will get 10% less coal this year than last. But better distribution may help coal burners...