Word: tolls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...large measure, the old trusts, the old trust builders and also , the old fear of trusts has gone. Big business still takes its toll of small, : but it does so mostly by the greater efficiency which comes from mass operation and this is regarded as legitimate. The old trust masters, ambitious egoists, often unscrupulous, . have either died or retired. In their place is a new generation who overbid their competitors in efficiency, of which Henry Ford is an example. The public fear of trusts has gone likewise, because the public understands that big business is a necessity under modern conditions...
...fiscal year-ended June 30, last. It showed an increase of traffic through the Canal of 38.7% over the previous year. A great part of this was due to large shipments of oil from California. Deducting all this temporary boom-oil, however, canal traffic increased 16.4%. Shipping tolls aggregated $24,290,963. This brought the income from the canal to more than $16,000,000, as compared to $10,000,000 in the previous year and to $3,000.000 in the year before that. Adding in the sums earned by the Panama Railroad, the machine shops, commissaries, coaling plants...
...American commercial vessels pay toll. During President Taft's Administration a law was passed exempting U. S. vessels in coastwise trade from toll, but Great Britain objected that this was a violation of the Hay-Pauncefote Treaty under which the U. S., formerly a partner in the canal business with Great Britain, acquired sole rights in the project and promised equal treatment to "all nations." Elihu Root, then a Senator, held that the law violated our treaty promise. President Wilson and Ambassador Page took the same attitude. In the Spring of 1914. the President asked that...
...died. In all there were 45 men-three shifts of 15 each-working together on the same job. All were placed under medical observation and care. Only ten of them were unaffected. The others all showed symptoms of the disease: headaches, nervousness, insomnia, lowered blood pressure. Such was the toll of the first major onslaught of the newest "occupational disease." For some time experiments have been going forward in an effort to improve gasoline as an automobile fuel. A motor entirely of glass was constructed to study the explosions in gas engines. It was observed that there...
Three Wins, Two Ties, Is Tiger Toll...