To assist in meeting the house shortage a group of prominent negroes organized "The Realty Housing and Investment Company.
This was due to the shortage of labor created by the draft, the increase in wages and better treatment, particularly the latter.
He adds further that "As a result, there has been a great shortage of labor in many of our industrial sections that may last as long as the war.
During theshortage of labor, these corporations found it impossible to keep their systems in repair.
For instance, a reader might be antagonized by Yours of the 14th regarding the shortage in your last order received.
How much more tactful is We regret to learn from your letter of March 14th that there was a shortagein your last order.
Their shops had been pillaged, and whenever there was a shortage of firewood the Turks merely proceeded to pull down another of the Armenian houses, which, as usual throughout Anatolia, were largely constructed of wood.
It was not a very clean receptacle, but being fairly waterproof would, we hoped, help to keep the porridge moist; for our chief fear with regard to the coming sea voyage was shortage of water.
By this time, however, we had become comparatively inured to a shortage of water.
In passing it may be said that until June 15 the shortage of nurses and medical officers was considerable.
Whenever there was a shortage of staff near the front, the base hospitals were depleted.
Arab servants were extensively employed by reason of the shortage of staff.
The innovation may seem a small one, but it was not effected without considerable trouble owing to shortage of rolling stock.
Very shortly after the Newcastle speech, and no doubt largely in consequence of it, the Northcliffe Press stunt of May 1915 on the subject of shell shortage was initiated.
Or the effect that this must have in accentuating munitions shortage may have been overlooked, obvious as it was.
But there wasshortage of both men and munitions, and men and munitions alike were needed elsewhere.
Although there was every prospect of an improvement before long in respect to munitions output, the shell shortage was at the moment almost at its worst.
But if the demand for it were to shrink because the industrial population lost their work through a shortage of raw materials or in any other way, agriculture would also suffer.
No fear now, that as at Loos, as at Neuve Chapelle, and as on a thousand other smaller occasions, British success in the field should be crippled and stopped by shortage of gun and shell!
Most serious of all, however, is the shortage of potatoes, which at present is simply catastrophic.
It would be a change for the worse for us if our Allies or the neutral states, contrary to our expectations and hopes, were to experience such shortage as would cause them to turn to us.
I do not apprehend that there will ever be a shortage of building materials in Bermuda, for this is how a house is built.
There was still a scandalous shortageof ammunition--and if there was really to be a 'push,' the losses would be appalling.
Rome was without a decent harbor: corn from Egypt had to be transshipped at sea and brought up the Tiber in lighters; which resulted in much inconvenience, and sometimes shortage of food in the city.
The production of electrolytic zinc from solutions has been encouraged as a result of the shortage of pure zinc for war purposes, and several processes have been developed.
The ranch fixes its residence in the best part of the estate, where there is least fear of a shortage of water, and where pasture is most plentiful.
In that year slow progress was made with the wheat-harvest of Buenos Aires because of the shortage of labour.
They start the talk about a shortage and then they keep it going.
On his death-bed the uncle confessed that for years he had carried upon the books of the bank a shortage which had arisen from mistakes.
We understand that in view of the paper shortage the West Drayton man who managed to get through on the telephone last week has abandoned the idea of writing a book about it.
A Yarmouth report anticipates a shortage of herrings.
She said that we ought to be particularly careful to eat very little meat, because there would certainly be a shortage of it later on.
Atkinson notes that here he found, as we had done before, an oil shortagefrom paraffin tins in the depot leaking, although there was no hole discernible.
They had been handicapped constantly by poor transportation and shortage of materials, but had worked faithfully and with what under ordinary circumstances would be regarded as remarkable success.
Both on account of the recruiting of their employees, and of shortage of coal, the companies operating electric tramways of the city have reduced their service to the minimum, as no power is available for the running of the cars.
Once again we began to have the same old shortage of rations, and this time with our ships in the harbor we couldn't understand it.
During our stay in Sevilla occurred another food shortage and also the great tobacco famine.
The remainder of the shortage was made up partly by postages and partly by private subscriptions.
On the eastern line, the shortage to be made up by the legislature was over L450.
But as he was of opinion that it would cause much inconvenience to stop any of the mail routes, he directed the amount of the shortage to be paid.
