Word: tolls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...villagers what the voice had said: "The Reservoir has broken. A flood is coming." Before she got to H in the directory the flood was up to her knees; when she got through Z the switchboard was swamped, the walls were crumbling. She had her husband splice the toll line to a phone in the wall, talked to El Paso-"Send us help." Then the ceiling fell...
...Speaker and Members of the House: . . Death will take its toll of service men and women if we do not pass legislation for their benefit. [Applause.] Death waits for no man or no woman. It does not even wait for Congress...
Patent monopoly of the Bell telephone endured for 17 years. Then independent companies immediately sprang up. The Bell system fought them ruthlessly for years. But local support kept them going, expanding. They formed national organizations, gave a tolerable toll service, far inferior to that of the Bell. Competition stimulated the use of phones. All companies that were fairly efficient made money. In 1912 a sort of peace was worked out between the rivals. The Bell began to give long distance service to Independents. When an Independent was bought out facilities. At present there are 8,200 Independent exchanges still existing...
Captain John Baptist Noel electrified a vast audience which packed the Union Living Room last night when he told a tale of meticulous planning of unceasing toll, and of men without fear in connection with the expedition to climb Mount Everest in 1924 when Irvine and Mallory died within 600 feet of their goal...
...toll was $1.75," said the stranger, laying the exact change on the counter. "Thank you," he added courteously and departed...