Word: mushroomer
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...Other Income." Mushrooms grow in dark, cool places. Boston Elevated Rail way Co. last week asked for permission from the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities to rent a portion of on. of its subway stations to a mushroom grower. No opposition developed...
...small House and the only one not entirely completed: though it is conveniently near the Yard, its surroundings are noisy and comparatively unattractive. Only one of its dormitories is modern, and the rooms incline to be dingy. Long, long before its six neighbors put in their mushroom-like appearance Adams House was there. Colonial Apthorp sheltered General Putnam; the captured Burgoyne lived in it when it were only a few of the forty coats of paint which the interior decorators removed in 1930. Westmorly Court and Randolph Hall rose when thick walls and Germanic gloom were the order...
...Edward George Seubert, president of Standard Oil Co. of Indiana and chairman of the Institute's marketing division, raged last week against a new racket: gasoline bootlegging. "Gaslegging" is the method of dishonest gasoline retailers who set up mushroom service stations and pocket the 3¢ or 4¢ tax levied by the State on each gallon of gas. Illinois estimates it is being defrauded of $1,000,000 a month, Pennsylvania, an equal amount. The national loss was said to run between $15,000,000 and $50,000,000 yearly, the threat to the legitimate gasoline market was so serious that...
...throughout Texas, Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee. Since 1927, dairy stock in the South has upped from 5,370,000 head to 5,761,000. In St. Louis, livestock centre and a Southern gateway, a permanent dairy exhibit was recently established in the four-year-old Arena, a giant red-&-yellow mushroom located just over the southern boundary of Forest Park. But few Southern-bred cattle won any of the big prizes offered at the 25th annual National Dairy Show held at the Arena last week...
...Author- David Garnett's father Edward was a critic, his mother Constance a translator of the great Russians, so David set out to be an economic botanist, discovered a new kind of mushroom. A conscientious observer, he served during the War on the Friends' War Victims Relief Expedition. Then he gave up botany, started a bookshop with Francis Birrell. When Francis Meynell launched the None such Press, Garnett became a partner, later sold out his share in the bookshop to have more time to write. His wife Rachel has illustrated several of his books (including The Grasshoppers Come...