Word: mushroomer
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Since 1900, over 1,000 companies have entered the motorcar business. Most were of the mushroom variety, and soon vanished. By 1920 only 77 companies remained active; in 1924 only 74 active makers remained, 28 of which did 96% of the business...
...safe to say that the unpretending Mr. I did not seek such distinction. His fame is a mushroom growth, a by-product of his voyage into these strange lands. If he came with premonition that he was to become a public character, it was because he was uninformed how the American public hungers for the superlative--no matter how superlatively insignificant...
Parties. In Germany there are seven main parties and a number of "mushroom" parties of little or no significance...
...upheaval. As, in its age-old way, in solitary musings, it sought a moment's observation of the Square, where it was wont to shake its head in self-approbation at the indications of decay the times give forth what glaring new construction stood there, thrown up like a mushroom in a day, to bar the time-worn path...
...bank to every 9,920 people in New York State and to every 6,660 people in the eastern states as a whole, Montana had a bank for every 1,370 inhabitants, South Dakota one to every 921, and North Dakota one to every 768. The capitalization of these mushroom northwestern banks was also very small. South Dakota had 45 banks capitalized at only...