Word: silo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Salt Lake City, Utah, on a block known informally as Welfare Square, stands a 15-barreled silo filled with wheat: 19 million lbs., enough to feed a small city for six months. At the foot of the silo stands a man--a bishop with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints--trying to explain why the wheat must not be moved, sold or given away...
...grain in the silo goes nowhere. The bishop, whose name is Kevin Nield, is trying to explain why. "It's a reserve," he is saying. "In case there is a time of need...
After the 1993 death of his 19-year-old son Patrick in a grain-silo accident, Hayes set up a support group for families of workers killed on the job. He provides counseling on legal rights and helps cut through bureaucratic red tape. The project has so far aided 300 families in 40 states and, says Hayes, "has helped fill the hole that Patrick left...
...tall structure--a water tower, a billboard, a stanchion in a football stadium--can serve the purpose. Companies can further lessen the unsightliness by clustering their antennas at a common site. When a tower must be built, it can often be camouflaged so that it looks like a silo on a barn, a bell tower on a church, even a palm or pine tree. In fact, insists Lowell McAdam, PrimeCo's chief operating officer, a free-standing tower in an open field, like the field bordering my home, is the last thing his company wants to build...
...think of few more satisfying moments in my life than when I turned the key to blow up the silo," he said...