Word: surfeits
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...thinking of that day several years from now when the seemingly inexhaustible consumer demand created by wartime shortages has dried up? When, in a few years, the reservoir of investment opportunity has been fully exploited, when the building boom dies from natural causes, when the consumer fever cools from surfeit or a shortage of cash, there will be a bust that will make 1929 look like a temporary recession...
...died of a surfeit of lampreys...
...grim fact: the productive miracle of industry was being outdone by the wasteful miracle of war. The shortages were still not at the front, but war was devouring the stockpiles faster than industry was replenishing them. Perhaps war was eating its last meal and would soon die of a surfeit-or perhaps not. Until the outcome was known more production was needed...
...Russian Army waited two months at East Prussia's frontier, reorganizing and piling up supplies. When the attack began on Oct. 16, a frightened Berlin reported: "No battle in the east has ever seen such concentration of Russian air forces and seasoned campaigners can not recall a similar surfeit of Russian artillery and tanks...
...Ratings of plays on the air are rising steadily, with no sign of listener surfeit...