Word: mushroomed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Urals are the chief seat of Soviet Asia's industrial power, "the inner bastion of Russian defense." The Magnitogorsk Steel Mill, which since 1936 has produced the cheapest pig iron in Russia, supports a mushroom metropolis of 200,000. The Cheliabinsk Tractor Plant, the world's biggest, now turns out tanks and armored cars. Twenty years ago Ekaterinburg, where the last Tsar and his family were shot in a cellar, was a city of 25,000. Now renamed Sverdlovsk, it is the junction of seven railroad lines, has a population...
Later on, he became a lieutenant colonel. He never went higher. He was a dutiful, unspectacular soldier. Whenever he could manage it, he slipped away to work on the "mushroom smoothness" of the silver in whose fashioning he was, in his unpretentious way, a great artist...
Among the tastier bits on the extra order list were: "Puree Mongoloid, with Pigtails," "Completed creamed Mushroom Soup with Cretins, (Little idiots with large heads)," "Filet of Soles (I were them myself, says the Colonel)," and "Sordid Cold Cuts...
...Navy stepped in to end sabotage. From the plants also came rumors that confusion, inefficiency and mismanagement had delayed production. From aircraft circles came gossip: Brewster officials had bitten off more than they could chew. From James Work, chairman of the Brewster Board, who has seen his company mushroom from a little subcontractor into a big prime contractor with over $100,000,000 worth of orders, came only silence...
...dodge while the battle is on. Her successors will go farther still. But none will go so far as the dreamboat design put out by Industrial Stylist George W. Walker of Detroit. He went all the way, streamlined his ship like an airplane, put his main battery in mushroom turrets, massed bridge and stack into a bulletlike island alongside a launching deck for aircraft. It was another vision. But no man could reasonably say that the battleship of 1955 might not have more than a passing resemblance to the dreamboat Walker...