Word: scarcest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Until recently, one of the scarcest and hardest-sought metals was columbium. Although not extraordinarily tough in itself, it mixes with steel, nickel and other metals to make alloys that can withstand the tremendous jet heat. The U.S. must depend on Africa, however, for 95% of its limited supply. Accordingly, a big hunt was started for substitutes and yielded the most promising wonder metal of all-titanium...
...their error. For years now, income from the School's small and static endowment has failed by around $25,000 annually to cover the cost of religious instruction, and the Corporation has sweat blood over that. Unallocated funds, which the Corporation uses to cover this deficit, are the scarcest item in modern education, and the Governing Board cannot afford to spend them on anything but the most vital needs. Graduate schools ordinarily do not qualify. As a matter of policy they must muster their own funds, pay their...
...miscalculated the ceiling, prices for Cadillacs and costs have recently decreased, General Motors last week began making refunds on purchases since Jan. 24, and trimmed current prices accordingly. The refunds, which average $30, will total $450,000. (With output about eight months behind orders, Cadillac is still the scarcest car on the market.) Headlined the New York Times wryly: THEM AS HAS (CADILLACS) GITS...
Though the nation's copper production was almost back to normal this week, the strike will cost the defense effort an estimated 30,000 tons of copper-scarcest material in the defense stockpile-as well as the zinc and lead mined with it. Result: a complete reshuffling of defense production schedules...