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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...
...length came a morning when Habe, at his observation post, saw the opposing slope mushroom brazenly with helmetless German heads, and their officers, calm on the skyline with spread maps, pointing at him with gloved fingers. The French had no ammunition. Later his phone went dead. He and his two companions realized that everyone had withdrawn behind them. They faced 60,000 Germans. Carrying their 250 pounds of observation equipment-"we were three soldiers unable to lose confidence in the army in a single night"-they retreated...
...C.I.O. steelworkers alone reported a mushroom growth of 100,000 new members, pointed to 200 new contracts (total: 700), a general pay increase throughout the industry of 10? an hour...