Word: tolles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that time Air Minister Italo Balbo established the speed school at Lake Garda, put Col. Bernasconi in command. The following year Italy upped the world record to 318 m. p. h., soon lost it again to Britain. Italy's efforts to regain the record took a frightful toll. She had pinned her hopes on a Macchi seaplane with a 2,800-h. p. Fiat motor driving two propellers. One after another these machines dove into Lake Garda, carrying to death in turn the crack pilots of the high speed school-Monti, Bellini, Dal Molin. Neri-until last month when...
...Henry Fairfield Osborn while he was president of the museum. By last week his successor Frederick Trubee Davison, son and brother of bankers, had invented an ingenious means: a quasi-public corporation called the Planetarium Authority, similar to the popular and profitable Port of New York Authority which builds toll tunnels, toll bridges and other self-liquidating port improvements. Such Authorities may issue bonds. The Planetarium Authority would pledge its bonds to Reconstruction Finance Corp. for the money needed to buy a planetarium projection device (price $110,000) from Carl Zeiss Inc. of Jena and put up the necessary building...
Greatest beer city by reason of its fame was Milwaukee, and great was the beerage thereof-but 13 years have taken their toll. The Pabsts like the Busches stood by to let Prohibition pass. Fred Pabst turned to cheese, ginger ale. near beer, pop. While he was doing so a chemist, Harris Perlstein. in Chicago picked up an old brewery and started to make malt syrup in a bigger and more profitable way than the ex-brewers. "Blue Ribbon" was Pabst's beer and Perlstein took '"Blue Ribbon'' for his syrup. Pabst sued and lost...
Bankers everywhere began to count up the toll of damage done. Hasty calculators figured that on Thursday and Friday $500,000,000 of currency had been drained from the Federal Reserve System, $500,000,000 on top of $732,000,000 that had gone into circulation in the previous seven days. An all time record: $116,000,000 worth of gold had been taken from the Federal Reserve banks in one day, mostly by the withdrawal of foreign balances...
...went through 36 hours of terrific mimic fighting. The Black fleet of cruisers and carriers were strong aloft, weak afloat. The Blues had all the battleships. Black bombers from a divided force peppered San Pedro and San Francisco but heavy Blue guns (firing 1-lb. blanks) took make-believe toll on the Lexington and Saratoga. Most unexpected occurrence in the "war" was a flash from the Navy Department in Washington ordering the battleships Arizona and West Virginia to consider themselves suddenly torpedoed...