The timber of the interior renders wood the natural fuel for the production of the steam that thaws the ground, but the scarcity of wood on the Seward Peninsula substitutes coal.
These creeks swarmed with ptarmigan, and it was well they did, for the new camp was ill supplied with food, and we found ourselves in a region of growing scarcity as we approached the Iditarod.
They knew that it was obtained from a marine Mollusc, but thought that the creature only made its appearance once in seventy years, and that this scarcity was the cause of its costliness.
On February 14 the movement began and a front at Hussar Hill was taken up, but owing to the heat and the scarcity of water, little was done during the next two days, except a bombardment of the Boer trenches and gun positions.
Meanwhile the investment continued, but the scarcityof ammunition restrained the activity of the bombardment.
We remained three days in that condition, and it was the first time I ever saw anything like scarcity of food in the army.
Not even the newcomer complains of a scarcity of the far-famed white ants.
Because of a scarcity of trained men certain positions have been filled by persons morally unfit to represent a civilized people.
Another cause, and that not of inconsiderable operation, tended to produce a scarcity in flesh provision.
As to the operation of the war in causing the scarcity of provisions, I understand that Mr. Pitt has given a particular answer to it; but I do not think it worth powder and shot.
The scarcity was not, as gentlemen seem to suppose, in wheat only.
It is one that on many accounts cannot be too much regretted, and the rather, as it was the sole cause of a scarcity in that article which arose from the proceedings of men themselves: I mean the stop put to the distillery.
Gentlemen well know whether there be a scarcityof partridges, and whether that be an effect of hoarding and combination.
And having looked to government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them.
In summer there is a scarcity of girls, for they go to the country and watering places to cook and do housework.
In busy seasons there is sometimes a scarcity of hands.
The scarcity of hands is greater in the departments requiring most skill; there is an abundance of inferior sort.
She supports her family by it, but complains of a scarcity of work, because watchmakers can import their jewels at four shillings a dozen from Switzerland, and set them themselves.
There is a scarcity of good hands, but an abundance of indifferent ones.
He says, in busy seasons there is a scarcity of hands in the New England factories.
There is an abundance of indifferent hands, but a scarcity of superior ones.
There is a scarcity of good hands in New York, and I would advise some ladies to learn.
The scarcity of all these articles in so distant a country, and the need, whether natural or artificial, which there is for them, enable the merchants to sell them at whatever exorbitant price their voracity may affix.
In other words, exclusivity and scarcity do not constitute property rights or even lead to their establishment.
Some scholars raise the issues of exclusivity and scarcity as the precursors of property rights.
The cry of scarcity of food still continued; wheat was mounting higher and higher in price.
Then, however, there was never heard a whisper of the scarcity of foxes.
The scarcity of corn still continued down to the end of the year.
There never was a famine, but there was a decided scarcityof provisions, which got worse as time went on.
Any attempt at fortifying the Citadel Hill this season was thought to be out of the question, the season being too late, the scarcity of workmen very great, and there being no troops for its defence.
The impressment of men for the Navy had been a great grievance; the trade of the country was not only injured, but the town was becoming deprived of fish and fuel in consequence of the scarcity of fishermen and labourers.
During the spring of 1796 Halifax suffered from a scarcity of provisions.
The scarcity of provisions in the town was at this time so great that the government found it necessary to dispatch the Snow Elizabeth to Quebec for flour for the inhabitants.
This was a great check to trade, and Halifax felt the result in the scarcityof provisions and particularly of flour, which went up immediately to L.
Thad noticed almost immediately that there was a scarcity of able-bodied men in the river village.
Among the miseries of these years was a scarcity of food, almost amounting to a famine.
My father had been buried in a small churchyard, with nobody living near it, and the church itself was falling down, through scarcity of money on the moor.
Happily they did not fight it out through scarcity of ammunition, as well as their mutual desire to go home and attend to their harvest business.
This bird is one of those luxuries which were often sought, because they were seldom found: its scarcity and external appearance are its only recommendation; the meat of it is tough and tasteless.
The scarcity of water compelled us to travel thus far, for none had been seen except one small muddy pool until I reached the valley where we encamped, and even there we found little more than enough for ourselves and cattle.
We were under no restraint now in selecting a camp from any scarcity of water or grass; for all hollows in the plains contained some water and grass grew everywhere.
The universal scarcity of water had however deprived me of every hope that any could be found in that country, at a season when we often sought it in vain, even in the bed of one of the large rivers of the country.
They fill their stomachs with an unctuous clay found in the alluvium of their district; and this, irrespective of the plenty or scarcity of other provisions.
What with the heat, the scarcity of water, and the fact that not one of the natives could be relied upon to do an hour's work, it was a terribly slow and wearying business; but Yamba and I stuck to it doggedly day after day.
Often we were almost choked by the intense heat which the wind occasionally wafted to us, and which, combined with the blazing sun and scarcity of water, rendered life positively intolerable.
Before October was far advanced the pestilential air of the place, and the scarcity and badness of provisions, had filled his hospitals, and left him hardly half the number in fighting condition.
But day passed after day without any deliverer making his appearance, and the scarcity of food rendered it almost impossible to keep the inhabitants from rising en masse to throw open the gates.
The amount of extra compensation which may properly be given on account of scarcity is determined either by the degree of sacrifice involved or by the ordinary operation of competition.
Later on, in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, risk and scarcity were given considerable prominence as value determinants.
The canon ofscarcity has exactly the same value as that of productivity.
How can we justify the superior rewards of that scarcity which is not due to unusual costs of any sort, but merely to restricted opportunity?
In both cases the advantage is based upon the scarcity of the thing controlled, and the extent of the advantage is measured by the degree of scarcity.
The absolute scarcity of land is, of course, fixed by nature; its relative scarcity is the result of human activities and desires.
This remains true even when the scarcity is due to restricted opportunity of preparation, rather than to sacrifices of any sort.
The scarcity of workers in occupations that require no special degree of skill is due to unusual hazards and unpleasantness.
Scarcity would then be determined by only three factors; namely, varying costs of training, varying degrees of danger and unattractiveness among occupations, and inequalities in the distribution of native ability.
However, some part of the differences in scarcity is the result of unequal opportunities.
While the element of scarcity is common to landownership and to monopoly, it differs in its operation.
It is governed by efforts and sacrifices, at least in so far as they are reflected in productivity and scarcity; and by productivity and scarcity to whatever extent is necessary in order to produce the maximum net results.
The share of the product received by any of the four agents of production depends upon the relativescarcity of the corresponding factor.
It is increase of utility, and not either actual or virtual increase of scarcity to which men attribute a moral claim.
It must however be remarked, that the ration at Norfolk Island was often uncertain, being regulated by the plenty or scarcity of the Mount Pitt birds.
The inevitable consequences of this scarcity of provisions ensued; labour stood nearly suspended for want of energy to proceed; and the countenances of the people plainly bespoke the hardships they underwent.
The want of artificers of all descriptions, and the scarcity of labourers at public work, much retarded the construction of a number of necessary buildings.
But the city could not easily be taken, and a siege, on account ofscarcity of food supplies and disease in the army, was impracticable.
So when the mouth of the harbor had been filled up, the Carthaginians were terribly oppressed by the scarcity of food; some of them deserted, others endured it and died, and still others ate the dead bodies.
In New Zealand, thanks to the scarcity of wild food plants and animals, even Maoris suffer cruel hardships if cut off long from their plantations.
