Word: silo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...full of corn as a silo. Dear Mom recounts the adventures of an addlepated rookie named Homer Stubbs, and his highborn pal Red Foster, son of a factory owner, who helps him badger a tough top-sergeant called Monihan. Devised by stocky, moon-faced Robert Newton Brown, CBS program director, and writer W. Ray Wilson, Dear Mom is supervised by Major Frank Collins, a morale officer on the executive staff of the 6th Corps Area. The program whips into a description of the joys of camp life, introduces Homer scratching away at a letter to his mother. Its first episode...
...Minnesota silo-huge Harold E. Stassen, youngest (33) Governor of them all, who had expected to ride to victory with his friend Wendell Willkie on the handle bars, pedaled home barely leading two opponents: Farmer-Laborite Hjalmar Petersen and Democrat Ed Murphy...
...Kansas, where the silo cutters droned, where plowing was under way for 1941's winter wheat, where upland corn burned out in July's drought, where the sorghums were good and cattle brought the best price in years, there were arguments hotter than political disputes over the best kind of wheat-Tenmarq, which the State College has pushed, Chiefkan, which farmers found more profitable. In Ohio, with its 255,000 farms (1.03 autos per farm, .66 tractors, .31 trucks), where late spring rains delayed corn and soybean planting, where the corn crop was down...
...story-high living room (which lacked nothing, said Caricaturist Covarrubias, except six or seven Cadillacs), a nine-foot painting of Author Brush. As his swan song, Architect Joseph Urban added an even more fabulous workroom-a round, soundproof, redwood-paneled tour de force resembling a swanky silo. There Katharine Brush settled down at a 15-foot semicircular desk to turn out more novels, short stories, scenarios of the sort that had made her one of the highest-paid U. S. female novelists and the glamor girl of U. S. letters...