Word: tolled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that the polio cases in Cutter-vaccinated children were a direct result of the vaccine, but if the statement made any sense at all, the inoculations must have been at least a contributing factor in the onset of the disease. His announced toll: 52 cases of clinical polio among vaccinated children, 50 of them paralytic and 44 after use of Cutter vac cine. (Among all unvaccinated Americans, the week would be expected to bring reports of no more than 150 cases...
Five years ago the scourge began to collect its toll: within a few months the two youngest of seven children died; next the mother went, and a brother, 10. Last year the father died, and Berna dette, new head of a family, was coughing and losing weight. Then at last she saw a doctor. County officials moved fast...
...Hoosier would deny that shortly after Governor Craig "burst" into office, the air was hot and heavy with toll-road plans; and certainly no Hoosier could deny that, as a political tool for graft-minded politicians, the toll-road project is a tremendous achievement. What you didn't mention is that the remainder of our highways have acquired the not so complimentary name of "Craig's corduroy road system...
FINALLY FOUND FACTS ON HOOSIER POLITICS AND THE TOLL-ROAD ISSUE. WE DON'T GET REPORTING LIKE THIS FROM THE LOCAL PRESS. IT IS TOO BUSY BEATING DRUMS ABOUT THE HERITAGE OF A FREE PRESS. MOST HOOSIERS AREN'T AS PROUD OF THIS PATRONAGE MUCK AS ARE THE POLITICIANS. AT LEAST THE BEST...
Automatic Toll-Taker. New Jersey's Garden State Parkway is using a robot toll-taker that collects fares directly from motorists, corrects improper payments, sounds an alarm if a motorist fails to ante up properly, and has a camera that snaps a picture of the rear license plate if a car tries to get by without paying the toll...