Word: ans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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>The Thin Man formula (exciting murder mystery plus fast, racy dialogue plus an equable, wisecracking, Scotch-bibbing married couple plus real people in a weird jumbling together of underworld and overworld) was good for several more workings.
> Among all of York's prosperous, loose-pocket citizenry, few were in more of a holiday mood than farmers from outlying Biglerville. Reason: Biglerville calls itself "AppleSauce Capital of the U. S." and the U. S. Navy had just placed an order there for several hundred tons of it...
As York provided an example of the change of fortune which war can bring to a U. S. town, one of York's businesses offered an example of what that change can mean to one firm.
In the early 1920s, Martin-Parry Corp. was a big U. S. manufacturer of commercial car bodies, for a few years grossed up to $5,000,000 annually. Its founder and president is tall, fretting, blue-eyed Frederick M. Small, son of the town's richest man, who went...
Nick Charles reluctantly interrupts his drinking this time when guests of harumphing Colonel Burr McFay (C. Aubrey Smith) are awakened by a shot to find that the old man's throat has been cut. Suspect are various heirs and retainers of McFay and a clammy Cuban (Sheldon Leonard) who...