Word: tolled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lake Ontario to Lake Erie. Canada did this despite the fact that the real value of the Welland could never be realized without the Seaway. Surely, with its present industrial boom, Canada can build a 250 million dollar all-Canadian Seaway, especially since it will pay for itself through toll charges...
This seemingly just proposition ignores the fact that steel prices set the price for most durable and semi-durable commodities. If iron ore transportation prices rose, as they would if Canada set its own Seaway toll charges, the price of steel would rise accordingly. Thus, the American public would, in the long run, finance the Seaway--either as taxpayers footing the higher cost of steel bought by the Government, or as consumers, buying durable goods...
Fifteen-Minute Toll. To dig the tunnel, contractors will use a mammoth U.S. cutter which fits the tube, rides along on rails, permits 24 electric drills to work at once. Most of Mont Blanc is solid granite, and (with electric drills) this is to the good: in 1880 workers digging the St. Gotthard tunnel in a less solid mountain were killed by rock lapses...
...Toll for the 15-minute trip under the Alps will be about $1.50, which should amortize the $20 million cost fairly rapidly. The project has been discussed for decades without anything happening, but now at last the outlook is rosy-although the older burghers on both sides still have misgivings about the risk of new Caesars and new Hannibals...
There the process was repeated. Before they went home the hunters bagged 14 birds-a fair day. "If the sun had been brighter," explained one of the men, "the ducks would have caught a better reflection from the dogs' tails. But with dogs like these you can toll ducks any day of the week, rain or shine...