Word: tolles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Manteno's Director Ralph Thompson Hinton announced that the epidemic was finally cleaned up and that peace had returned to Manteno. The toll: 384 stricken, 47 dead. Engineers, examining the miles of Manteno sewers, suspected a small leak in the tiles, believed that contaminated water had seeped into the wells. Prospect was that Manteno would either build a filtration plant on the grounds or start piping water from Kankakee's safe water supply ten miles away...
...habits of thought would have prepared him for the surprises of 1939; for the emergence of women in independent political roles, for such phenomena as that of Pundit Dorothy Thompson, gravely lecturing businessmen who would have regarded her as a hopeless Red before the crash had taken its toll of their certainties. But deeply familiar would have been a Congress debating as it did last week under the same old rules and a top-hatted nine-man Supreme Court paying its respects at the White House...
...Continued in its mood of last fortnight in bitter night sessions to disembowel Franklin Roosevelt's "Great White Rabbit of 1939." The Republocratic coalition, working as smoothly as surgeons, cut open the $2,490,000,000 Spend-Lend Bill and extracted $500,000,000 for toll roads, tunnels and bridges, $350,000,000 for RFC railroad equipment loans, knifed $25,000,000 from a proposed increase in the loan authorization of the Export-Import Bank, then passed it, sending the emaciated Rabbit to the House. The bill, once totaling $3,860,000,000, now stood...
...Pinky Smith is a young liberal who happens to be smart or a young smartpants who finds it convenient to appear liberal. But nobody denies that he has gone far in his 30 years and promises to go much farther. Twelve years ago he bummed his way across the toll bridge between Vancouver, Wash, and Portland, told the bridge keeper: "I'll come back some day in my Cadillac and pay you that nickel." Last week he crossed the bridge again and lamented: "Here I am in my Cadillac and I find the bridge is free...
...shortly before the late great Booker T. Washington organized the National Negro Business League, there were two Negro banks. When N. N. B. A. was formed in 1926, eleven years after Booker Washington's death, there were 25. Depression I took its toll of Negro banks as of white banks. Today there are twelve active Negro banks and trust companies (with total capital of $1,000,000, assets of $10,000,000) besides 18 savings, loan, and real estate banks...