Word: toadstools
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...builders of Hoover Dam will spend 50,000,000 Federal dollars in and around Las Vegas, Nev. in the next eight years. In anticipation of this flood of cash, the little desert town, main-line rail base for the construction camps, has been swelling and swelling like a toadstool. Real estate has boomed, collapsed, boomed again. Night clubs opened up with show girls from Los Angeles. Speakeasies flourished, for Nevada has no dry law. Gambling resorts blossomed legally. Dam workers were to be separated from their pay checks as pleasantly as possible...
...infancy, Sylvia Thompson made up a story when she was four which her family still like better than anything she has written since. It ended: "And when she came around the corner, what do you think she saw? She saw the Fairy Queen and Queen Victoria sitting on a toadstool." Sylvia Thompson has also written: The Hounds of Spring, The Battle of the Horizons, Chariot Wheels...