Word: graveyard
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...mushrooming all over the U.S. Within five months its sales may hit $36,000,000 annually-more than 100 times four years ago. Besides helping his own company, Smith is also feeding fat contracts to woodworking outfits which might otherwise rest in World War II's economic graveyard. In doing all this Smith is sitting pretty-he is Interstate's biggest stockholder...
America's gayest graveyard began a new broadcast last fortnight (Bible readings) with a new announcer, Scottish-burred Bill Hay, announcer for 16 years of the Amos 'n' Andy program. When Announcer Hay finished his first reading, the story of the Creation, listeners heard a genteel plug for his sponsor, Los Angeles' Forest Lawn Memorial-Park: its wrought-iron gates are bigger than those of Buckingham Palace...
...sorrow linger." This was the vision that came 25 years ago to a young engineer, Hubert Eaton, as he viewed with disfavor a debt-ridden, unprepossessing little necropolis he had been assigned to manage on the outskirts of Los Angeles. Promoter Eaton decided he would turn the 55-acre graveyard into "The Happy Cemetery." As a first step, he banned stones, substituted bronze markers laid level with the grass. Later he discarded the word cemetery for the more euphonious Memorial-Park...
...voice was unprofessional, big, with a flat, tolling quality that frequently gave professionals the creeps. No listener remembered its like-least of all originating from censor-shrouded Cairo, that graveyard for radio correspondents...
...Then nothing moves. Even the big guns which peppered us are silent. The silence of a graveyard reigns everywhere. The infantry advances and the hotly contested point is in our hands...