The British town of Slough was used as a dump for war surplus materials in the interwar years, and then abruptly became the home of 850 new factories just before World War II . The sudden appearance of this " Trading Estate ", which was quickly widely reproduced throughout Britain, prompted the poem.
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He renamed " City of Vernon " as " Mud Hen " and built " Wanderer " using " Mud Hen's " five horsepower engine . " Wanderer " was by and her deck house originally belonged to the ship MV " Penticton ", which was converted into a towboat by the Lequime brothers and could thus spare the surplus material.
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Along with Hiroshi Tada, Isoyama formed a committee for the construction of a large statue of the founder of aikido in the precincts of the Aiki Shrine, which was unveiled on 8 November 2009 . Surplus material from this monument was used to make a bust of the founder which was unveiled at the newly rebuilt Iwama Station on 24 July 2012.
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He defined it as one that " cares less about quantity than about quality; that takes as its goal the production of human satisfaction as much as surplus material; that is focused on the idea that it might endure and considers durability at least as important as increases in size . " The book has been generally well-received, though some critics have questioned his proposed solutions.
