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...spite of its mushroom growth since 1934, Transradio operates on a shoestring compared with worldwide press associations like A. P. or U. P. In Europe, where most of its news originates at present, Transradio has only three or four full-time reporters. In London last September, Transradio had two men, and both departed after war broke out. For several months Transradio's London office had no tenant, no name on its door. Then Alexander Paton, correspondent for some Scottish newspapers, took over. Scotsman Paton's cable stories are brief, innocuous, readily passed by British censors...
...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...