Word: store
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trouble leasing elevator space enough to store his own huge crop, decided that for so long as politicians insisted on Government subsidy programs, there was money to be made in the storage business. He began building skyscraping wheat bins from Nebraska to Texas, renting them to the U.S. for the surplus wheat it had bought. Garvey's new C-G-F Grain Co. was aided by specific federal subsidy in the form of fast tax write-offs (five years), as good as any granted to defense-plant builders during Korean war mobilization...
Lowering their faces under their flaring headdresses, the nuns browsing among the pious tracts in the little store silently shook their heads when Shopkeeper Armand Bertele offered to help them. The figures in nun's garb had reason for silence: they were in reality male counter-intelligence agents of France's formidable Direction de la Surveillance du Territoire, and they were more interested in baldish, Austrian-born Armand Bertele's comings and goings than in commentaries and chaplets...
...size has flown so far, but for a year Aerojet-General Corp. has been ground-testing hydrogen rocket motors at its Sacramento plant. Some tests have yielded more than 100,000 Ibs. of thrust. The treacherous new fuel burns cleanly and smoothly, and it is not as hard to store and get along with as some doubters feared...
...become "heroic," his bosses maneuver a neat fix: Angelo must be killed and enshrined as a national martyr. Instead, in a duel, innocent Angelo spits his enemy through the gizzard and continues to thrive. His bosses keep on hoping, when he is ordered to blow up an Austrian powder store and burn the fodder of the enemy cavalry. Instead of perishing superbly in the attempt, Angelo just does the job very efficiently-and comes prancing back for more, as insatiable for adventure as Don Quixote, as indestructible as the comic hero of an old one-reeler...
Author Janeway (The Walsh Girls, Daisy Kenyan) has attempted a novel of pother and passion, and has succeeded only in forcing her story into the mold of cakemix fiction. For those who like store-bought cake, skilled Novelist Janeway has a lot to offer-the smooth batter of dialogue, the raisins of sentiment, and even, here and there, a few nourishing calories of characterization...