Word: mushrooms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pratt & Whitney gradually by a small charge on each engine delivered until the advance is used up. The new factory will belong to Pratt & Whitney with no strings attached. To France this is a necessary extravagance. She needed the engines and United was unwilling to put capital into mushroom war expansion...
Soon Adolf finds himself wandering in a garden-"Berchtesgarden, you know"-and comes on a mushroom which turns out to be a small atlas globe with a tall, thin, umbrella-bearing caterpillar on it. Adolf has an uncomfortable suspicion. He becomes excited, and begins to shout about negotiations with "Those dirty Jewish Eskimos." To quiet him, the caterpillar suggests a poem...
...Pronunciation: Shmigwy-Ridzh. Meaning: nimble-mushroom. The Marshal's family name was Rydz (Mushroom), indicating peasant origin. But because of the quickness of both his wits and his body, his companions in the Pilsudski Legions gave him the sobriquet Smigly (Nimble). He sometimes wears it before, sometimes behind Rydz, prefers it behind so that the name has less meaning...
...production trebled but efficiency in distribution sat still, and a quarter of the country's workers were shifted from production to distribution. While U. S. businessmen goggled at the cost-saving possibilities of automatic machinery and scientific mass production, they let distribution grow into a vast, unscientific mushroom. Pennies snipped from production cost climbed back onto the cost of getting goods to the consumer...
Slighter than The Song of the World, and written before it, Harvest, a simpler, more sentimental story, has been more popular in France. Its plot withers under synopsis like a mushroom in the sun: a huge, passionate peasant becomes the last inhabitant of an abandoned mountain village, marries a stray waif, and together they begin to cultivate and repeople the abandoned land. Sample Giono description: "And today there had been rain. Like a bird it arrived, settled, and went away. The shadow of its wings had been seen passing over the hills of Néviėres. It came...