Word: tolled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bunk, ka-bunk, ka-bunk" of white-wall-tired family automobiles whanging over the endless, shimmering, concrete slabs of four-lane highways. Occasionally, the rhythm is disturbed by the screech and crash of shiny sedans meeting in bone-shattering collision (the National Safety Council's estimated traffic death toll for the holiday: 290). Cities lie in Sunday silence...
...four days and four nights, twelve inches of rain had fallen, with a recorded peak of 21 inches at Hita, Oita Prefecture. The toll: 457 known dead, 1,114 missing, 901 injured; some 800,000 homeless; 4,000 homes destroyed or washed away, 300,000 homes damaged or flooded, 350,000 acres of rich paddy and upland fields ruined and gone. The cost: $50 million to $100 million. For Kyushu, where it rains twice as much as it does elsewhere in Japan, it was the worst flood catastrophe in 61 years...
...automaking is only the core of Fiat's industrial empire. A visitor to Turin rides to a Fiat-owned hotel in a Fiat taxi, reads a Fiat newspaper, drinks Fiat's Cinzano vermouth, shops at a Fiat drugstore, leaves for Milan over the Fiat-controlled autostrada (toll road...
...they got the last three dozen guests out by turning off the electric lights. Then they totted up the toll: 18 gallons of lobster Newburg, 450 hamburgers, eight turkeys, eight hams, a bushel of green salad, eight gallons of lavender-pink potato salad, six crocks of baked beans, eight gallons of sherbet, dozens of cases of bourbon, Scotch and gin, 120 bottles of champagne. Said Martha: "Everything came out even, except Clem Ryan." The evening had cost Millionaire Ryan something like...
...Homes were flattened; factories, schools and shops were ripped apart board by board, block by block. After the wind, gas poured from broken mains, burned low along the ground with a sputtering blue flame. During the night, rescue workers burrowed for bodies in the eerie light. Flint's toll: 113 dead, 547 injured, $12 million in property damage...