The history of multiparticle production as a concept dates back to 1930s, according to the accounts left by the contemporaries [1,2]. In 1936 the Auger electron-photon showers, now known as extended air showers, were discovered, but the cascade theory of Bhabha and Heitler did not yet exist. It seemed probable that all the shower electrons are produced at very high energy in a single act. Wataghin[3] and Heisenberg [4] speculated that the quantum field theory might have a limit of validity and would break down at distances shorter than a certain value, which was supposed to be a hypothetical universal unit of length. For the energies beyond that limit, a strong growth of the interaction with increasing energy, such that the perturbation theory would no longer hold, would result in the multiparticle production in a single act. Once the Auger shower was interpreted as an electromagnetic cascade process, this idea was completely forgotten. This was before discovery of a pion (G.Lattes et al., 1947), and little was known at that time about the field where this idea is relevant indeed - the physics of the strong, or hadronic interaction. However, the mental pattern that links multiparticle production and non-perturbative phenomena, established then, has survived up to now and its presence can be seen in the modern studies of strong interaction in the collisions of heavy nuclei.