Word: silos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...both sides of the Atlantic, thriller-dealers were set ashake by a rather small boo from Msgr. Ronald Knox (The Body in the Silo). "I say the detective story is in danger of getting played out," wrote Father Knox in the Roman Catholic weekly, the Tablet. ". . . . The stories get cleverer and cleverer, but the readers are getting cleverer and cleverer...
...seven pigs, two mules, 37 chickens and 13 human beings with whom he had shared an abandoned boxcar on Teche Bayou and set out, at 12, to fend for himself. He became a lumber grader, a Wells-Fargo messenger, a medicine-show spieler in "Tincup, Miss.", a silo builder in Montana, a potato digger in Idaho, a sheepherder in Colorado, before he again settled down in lumber...
Rosee's story got to Wisconsin's silo-sized Frank Bateman Keefe. He reared up in the House and demanded a Congressional investigation of rye. What he wanted to know: why did Commodity Credit Corp. help maintain the corner in rye by purchasing between four and five million bushels of rye last March for export at prices ranging from $1.18½ to $1.29 a bu.? At the time, Argentine rye was available...
Viewing the elephantastic $2,750,000 World War I Liberty Memorial above Kansas City's famed Union Station Plaza, the late Will Rogers delighted art critics and deeply wounded the pride of Kansas Citizens when he asked: "What is it? A silo...
When we said goodbye by the silo...