Word: tolles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...guerrillas also have a transvestite stunt that has taken toll on the Japanese. Chinese youths dress as girls, lure Japanese into the countryside, where waiting guerrillas fall upon them...
STOWE--Mt. Mansfield Region--4 inches powder at Smugglers' Notch, increasing to 12 inches at summit. Thin base on upper half of mountain. Good skiing on entire Toll Road, little or none elsewhere...
...Safety Foundation was organized last year by the automotive industry to check the appalling traffic toll of life, limb and property. Substituting a program of Engineering, Education and Enforcement for the desperate "- and sudden death" approach to highway-safety problems, the Foundation has thus far contributed $1,250,000 to some 16 safety organizations, educational and legislative movements, traffic engineering institutions and personnel-training bodies working for safer highways. By last week this investment had paid a big dividend. Lower by 7,400 than the preceding one-year period's was the traffic fatality score for the twelve months...
This drastic measure saved Marseille. By 11 p. m. the fire was under control, by next morning damage was estimated held down to $1,500,000. The death toll at latest reports...
...possible exception of 1933." During the first six months of 1938, he added, the death rate was 10.8 per 1,000 a figure surpassed only by the 10.7 rate for the entire year of 1933. Some 60% of the total 1938 decline was due to the remarkably small death toll of pneumonia and influenza last winter. Other factors pulling down the 1938 death rate: 1) low maternal mortality, which now amounts to 4.4 per 1,000 live births, 15% less than 1937; 2) lower incidence of tuberculosis, which shows signs of declining for the first time to less than five...