Word: tolls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...known alarm clock could have raised such a crowd of students so instantaneously, for in less than two minutes after the crash the scene of the accident was surrounded by a truly motley crowd anxious to assist the victims. Fortunately the toll was slight, the driver of the Chevrolet being the only person to appear even shaken up, while to the spectators' utter astonishment, five men sound in body and mind crawled one after another from the tonneau of the Ford...
...death toll was heavy...
...President of one of these companies is reported as saying that a great fortune awaited anyone who would devise a means of levying toll for broadcasting service. This seems impossible. You send out into the spreading atmosphere a program of music and talk in the form of wireless waves. Anyone who has a radio set may listen to this program, without any charge or without the possibility of another's preventing him. The phonograph company sells you a machine and then sells you records. The radio company sells you a set and then gives you free broadcast service...
...exchange became so unprofitable that the house was compelled to enter new and previously untried financial fields. With very faulty but not uncommon judgment, the house began to float petroleum securities in the boom of 1919-20. Heavy losses were sustained in Simms Petroleum, which took a greater toll from supposed "Wall Street insiders" than from the general public. The last venture was in Mexican Seaboard, whose sharp drop was the occasion of the firm's insolvency. Rumors caused a run of frightened customers and the failure became inevitable...
...cost of anthracite coal can never be figured in dollars and cents alone," concludes the report, "there must be added to the labor cost an annual toll of over 500 lives, of over 20,000 workers who suffer accidents, of men and boys who do work as dirty and dangerous as soldiers in war, that coal may be produced to warm the homes of our people...