Word: silo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...advance, they made it look easy. Using scissors on the convict driver, Touhy commandeered a garbage truck inside the prison yard. Loading some ladders and his colleagues-in-flight on to it (and taking along two guards, one of whom was mauled, as hostages), Touhy drove the truck to silo-shaped guard tower No. 3. There the criminals shot and slightly wounded Guard Herman Kross, scaled the 35-ft. wall, walked down the tower's outside steps, hopped into Guard Kross's car (parked near by) and drove away. All this took an hour. In that time...
...G.O.P. in Minnesota gave out no wild cheers over this sudden recruit. Young silo-shaped Governor Harold E. Stassen, architect of Minnesota's new G.O.P., had not planned any rooms in the Republican house for guest stars. He had just enough for his own. Stassen had already sent to the Senate one of them, Joe Ball, a rangy newspaperman with a stomachful of courage...
...camouflaged version the central mess hall and some of the barracks have been mottled with paint, the central road circle has been painted out, and straight lines and shadows have been broken up with the aid of sloping fabric screens, transplanted trees and painted fiber board. A dummy silo completes the illusion of ah innocent-looking three-building farm group...
Fortnight ago, Minnesota's silo-sized Republican Governor Harold E. Stassen proposed a "world association of free peoples." It would require minimum standards of its members: religious freedom, fair internal justice, elective governments. Stassen suggested it could...
...safe to predict that neither program will be as sensational as the career of Wyllis Cooper, veteran radio dramaturge who writes NBC's show. From 1933 to 1936 Radioman Cooper wrote and directed the silo-of-blood programs called Lights Out. Late at night, so children couldn't hear them and have their little livers scared out of them, they gushed from Chicago's WMAQ and were beyond doubt the most goose-fleshing chiller-dillers in air history. At each broadcast's opening a deep, dark, dank voice would instruct listeners to put their lights...