Word: tolls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...such macabre romancing is possible with influenza epidemics. They are extensive, exasperating to the medical profession, sometimes desolating. But even when their death toll is enormous they make no lurid history. Influenza is too subtle a disease to lend itself to ghastly poetics...
...TOLL THE BELL...
...toll the bell...
Like many another international tycoon, Matchmaker Kreuger is under 50. The son of an unsuccessful matchmaker, Ivar Kreuger went to the Swedish Polytechnic Institute, became an engineer. Kreuger & Toll started business as an engineering firm. But, when Father Kreuger became involved in serious difficulties, Son Ivar left engineering and turned to matchmaking. His initial success was the 1913 merger. When his combine wedded the Jonkoping group in 1917, Matchmaker Kreuger made the match. He is managing director of Swedish Match, president of International Match, chairman of the board of Swedish-American Investment Corp., and, of course, head of all-controlling...
Bamberger's Department Store, in Newark, N. J., last week extended a store "service." From now on it will be possible for residents of 297 towns and cities in 1,218 square miles of surrounding terrain to telephone Bamberger's free (of toll charges. The number: Long Distance, OOOI...