Word: tolled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...foresees, but lung cancer is multiplying faster than any other form of cancer, and, as a cause of death, faster than any other disease. Since 1933 the U.S. death rate from lung cancer (allowing for the growth of population) has quadrupled for men and doubled for women. The 1953 toll is expected to be 18,400 men, 3,600 women; 94% of the men and 92% of the women will be over 45. In the same 20 years, U.S. cigarette consumption has shot up from 111 billion to about 433 billion...
...better. General Winterton ordered them off the streets, and put U.S. troops of the 351st Infantry Regiment to the job of restoring order. It was a belated but successful move. The Triestini cheered the Americans, and order was restored within a few hours, without any more casualties. But the toll of the three days' work stood thus: among the demonstrators, six dead, 56 wounded or injured, more than 100 arrested; for the police, no deaths, 72 wounded...
...Come Back." The toll in southwest Missouri's beef and dairy country is sickening. Millions of acres of pasture are dead right down to the roots, thousands of trees are dying, stock ponds are muddy hollows, trucks are hauling water to farms in almost every conceivable kind of container. Thousands of farmers, running out of grain and hay, are dumping part or all of their cattle on the market at sacrifice prices. For the past two months, the stockyards in St. Louis, Kansas City and Springfield have been jammed to the gates with calves that should have been kept...
...more casualties and 35,000 more combat dead than the U.S. lost in three years of Korea). Almost all of the officers and noncoms are French, but the annual drain on trained officers has steadily exceeded the output of Saint-Cyr, France's West Point. Aside from the toll of blood from a nation that had bled so much in two world wars, the war was costing France a staggering sum-$1.3 billion last year, of which the U.S. supplied $400 million plus direct delivery of war goods, B-26s and Flying Boxcars, World War II Bearcats and Hellcats...
...island's toll: 39 dead, more than 100 injured, 4,000 homeless...