Word: worthlessness
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Nutrias were once (about 1922) all but exterminated in their wild state, and South Americans tried to raise them. The animals multiplied all right, but their pelts in captivity proved almost worthless. U.S. nutria breeders had the same experience. In 1939, 50 pairs were released in Iberia Parish, La. (All they need for food is coarse marsh vegetation.) Next year one was found 65 miles away by water. By now, thriving in the wild, they have reached the delta of the Mississippi and crossed the state line into Texas. During the 1946-47 trapping season, the state of Louisiana collected...
...Wind. It was a disaster that had made Haussermann a miner. In 1911 a typhoon swept northern Luzon, flooded the tiny Benguet Co.'s only mill, bankrupted the owners, and left the Bank of the Philippine Islands with a worthless batch of loans. To retrieve its stake, the bank picked Haussermann, Benguet's lawyer, who had come to the islands in 1898 as a second lieutenant, had stayed to become an assistant attorney general in the new Philippine's government...
...Start negotiating with the Bureau right now. It's worthless to go down to the Cape, for instance, around May or June hunting...
...Rodriguez had shocked her family and friends by marrying Simon Patino, son of a Spanish-Indian cobbler. Simon, the underpaid clerk of a German merchant, promptly got fired and had to make good on a $250 credit he had advanced to a prospector who had found, not silver, but "worthless" tin in the Andes...
...Planes of General Claire Chennault's commercial airline shuttled in & out, evacuating nonessential government workers, carrying sacks of flour on the trip in. Then the flour ran out. The flour planes found a substitute. To Mukden's cold and hungry soldiers last week came planeloads of almost worthless bank notes...