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Neither ark nor dove of peace landed on the Ararats (Big Mount Ararat & Little Mount Ararat) last week but bombs, thousands of them, raising thunder and mushroom clouds of dust. Round the Ararats' feet was the smoke of 200 burnt and blackened villages...
...names, the following might easily have been unearthed: i) That Cleveland is justly proud of Great Lakes Aircraft Corporation, and would rather have as its representative in the aircraft manu facturing field one such strong, well-financed, well-managed concern than a score of the so- "called "manufacturers" which, mushroom-like, fill barns and hangars in other cities, build tiny "factories" on overenthusiastic local capital. 2) That the "abandoned" Glenn L. Martin plant was at the time it was taken over one of the two or three largest and best-equipped aircraft factories in the world, and that subsequent additions...
...Brisbane's memory is not always perfect. It was Alice herself who changed size, when she nibbled pieces of the Caterpillar's mushroom. The Cheshire Cat, constant in size, faded in and out of sight. tin this fable, the frozen snake came to, bit the Woodman...
...Dayton, Ohio, that company had to take over Farm Life. T. W. LeQuatte, onetime editor of very successful Successful Farming, was brought in, made publisher. Founder Taylor, septuagenarian, retired, soon was put in the hands of a guardian. But still advertisers could not forget Farm Life's mushroom-growth circulation. Last week Publisher LeQuatte announced that unless $25,000 were raised immediately, the subscription list would be sold and Farm Life would enter bankruptcy, or would be reorganized...
...producers. Such a position was taken last fortnight by the Publishers' Association of New York City, and reported at length in newspaperdom's trade weekly, Editor& Publisher. As is customary at such times, Editor & Publisher talked bitterly about "a growing evil" and a "deluge" and the "mushroom-like growth of free publicity." Then it told of a committee formed by the Association to "stem" the evil, forestall the "space-grabbing attempts." Placed in active charge of the committee's work was Andrew Ford, onetime managing editor of the New York Telegram. With a corps of assistants...