Word: mushroomer
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...people. There was a short-circuit in the Christmas tree. Flames crackled among the celluloid ornaments, then jumped to a counter piled with celluloid toys, which exploded. The building was fireproof, but its rotunda made an excellent chimney. From the third floor to the roof roared a mushroom of flame and smoke...
Officers shouldered their way through the crowd explaining what had happened: on the inlet tube for cooling the turbogenerators with sea water, a 40-lb. mushroom-shaped valve, made of cast iron instead of brass, had jammed, finally burst. A solid jet of water nearly a foot in diameter poured into the hold. The ship was made to list purposely to keep the broken valve near the surface. Over & over the officers repeated there was no danger...
...part of that way will be covered when people,--the ordinary workers and business people of our blind nation stir in their philosophy of economic complacency which the bitterest physical discomfort does not seem to shake, and realize that the prosperity, so-called, of the past decade was a mushroom growing out of a rotten stump. And only when they realize that the stump must be brought level with the earth can the lasting work of reconstruction proceed. --The Dartmouth...
...shroud lines which support the spherical aluminum gondola are straightened out with meticulous care. In the cool of night hydrogen is fed from cylinders into the envelope. In less than an hour the inflation is finished. The bag is one-fourth inflated, bulges at the top like a mushroom...
...Mushrooms. Said the New York Herald Tribune: "Owing to the inexcusable conditions obtaining at present with respect to the finances of certain mushroom companies the impression is being created in some uninformed quarters that there has been a total breakdown in corporate business acumen. This is far from being the case, as the liquid cash position of the premier American corporations and their continued willingness and ability to discharge their duty to stockholders and creditors indicates...