Word: tolles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years across the Red River from Durant, Okla. to Denison, Tex. has stood a private toll bridge, now in receivership. Early this year Texas and Oklahoma finished building a free span close to the toll bridge. The toll bridge receivers went into Federal Court in Houston and obtained an injunction against Texas' opening the free bridge until such time as the Legislature authorized them to sue the State for $180,000 in damages to their property. Obedient to the injunction Governor Sterling had the Texas end of the free bridge barricaded. Wearied by this red-tape delay...
With Rangers blocking the free bridge, Governor Murray was determined that no one should use the toll bridge. Therefore he declared martial law-the first in eight years in Oklahoma-over the road to the latter span, summoned 32 guardsmen, including a colonel, three captains and a lieutenant, to halt all traffic a mile and a half away. After being duly photographed and interviewed, this force took up its patrol with orders from the Adjutant General: "Hold the fort but keep the cost down...
Meanwhile Texas was working fast to end the state of siege against Oklahoma. Its Legislature passed a bill for the toll bridge company to sue the State. The Governor's secretary sped 200 mi. by motor from Austin to Houston, dashed into a banquet of Texas attorneys, presented the measure to Governor Sterling who signed it amid cheers. Next day the Federal Court suspended its injunction until Aug. 3 when another hearing would be held. At Denison Captain Hickman and his men cleared away the cumbersome barricades from the free bridge, opened it to traffic...
...This "Sauerwein plan" is exactly opposite to Mr. Hoover's purpose of assistance to Germany. What M. Sauerwein proposed was a sacrifice (by the U. S. exclusively) of what is owed in War Debts by France & Allies^leaving France & Allies free to collect their full toll of German Reparations. If the "Sauerwein plan" had not come from the leading French journalistic expert on foreign affairs it would have to be labeled "willfully preposterous...
Less dramatic but equally momentous was I. T. & T.'s acquisition last week of a "dominant interest" in L. M. Ericsson Telephone Co. The purchase was made from Kreuger & Toll, Swedish match monopolists, bankers, and industrialists who have been dominant in Ericsson for only nine months (TIME, Sept. 15). Although Swedes must regret what amounts to the loss of one of their nation's greatest enterprises, the deal opens new and larger spheres to Herr Kreuger. His company received large amounts of I. T. & T. stock in return for Ericsson and is now thought to be the largest...