Word: topsoil
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bernard Spilsbury is Britain's living successor to mythical Sherlock Holmes. He specializes in macabre cases in which there seem to be no clues. Who but Sir Bernard could have brought to justice Norman Thorne who hanged his sweetheart and then buried her deep beneath the plowed topsoil of his farm? The latest achievement of Sir Bernard Spilsbury, British readers were reminded by the million last week, was his feat in persuading a jury to send Reginald Hicks to the gallows for holding his father-in-law's head in an oven with the gas turned on. Reginald...
Although many a commodity has rallied from its low, last week the principal foodstuffs were still, in Manhattan at least, "dirt cheap." At last week's prices, corn, wheat and rye were respectively .018?, .016? and .01? a pound. In Manhattan good topsoil sells at $3 for a 200-lb. barrel...