Word: scarcest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Penicillin is still the best-known VD cure, but penicillin supplies are scarcest where they are most needed...
...nation has only four-fifths as many doctors as it needs. Estimates as to the numbers of deaths attributable to inadequate medical care run as high as almost 350,000 annually. Medical care is scarcest where it is needed most. With increasing specialization, medical costs have risen so high that a serious illness in most white collar families, even in those who are able to pay for proper medical facilities, can devour more than a quarter of the family income and completely shatter a budget...
...about to restore a free market. If it did, prices might drop even lower, and the British might have to take a whopping loss on the rubber already bought for 23½ ?. To Wall Streeters the moral was plain: if the price of crude rubber, once among the scarcest of commodities, could drop so quickly, how long would the sky-high prices of other "short" commodities stay...
...shortages, the Dutch public will not tolerate a black market, though there is some illegal traffic in cigarets (the legal weekly ration is 40). Dealers in the "poison market," as it is labeled by the Government, are sent to Veenhuizen prison to make shoes, one of Holland's scarcest commodities...
From balcony to pit the audience, which had come to see a revival of Kaufman & Ferber's Stage Door, seethed with indignation. Actress Ilena Sylva was actually chomping a real banana-scarcest of all delicacies in Britain...