Word: tolls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...discussed high railroad freight rates as a factor in the Farm Problem: "It is as if a row of toll gates had been placed around this whole section of our country. ... Some calculations which I made a few years ago showed that the increases in railway rates had in effect moved the Midwest 200 to 400 miles further from seaboard...
...Greeks voted. But Athens reported a curious fever which was taking a daily toll of some 40 lives in the city. Telephone and telegraph communications were crippled because the personnel also was stricken...
...tale of triumph. Yet, most curiously, the odor of death hangs over the story of Jay Gould. It is not so much, perhaps, that consumption took its gradual toll of his energies and powers. Nor is it that his chief business intimates died penniless, or insane, or by violence. Gould had the Midas-touch. He transmuted the most unlikely stuff into gold. But in the transmuting he took from it all life and beauty, left it deflowered and pitiful. Said pleasure-loving Jim Fisk: "Gould lets everyone carry out his own corpse." Said pious, ruthless Daniel Drew: "His touch...
...blackest horror in darkest Africa is sleeping sickness. Very different from encephalitis lethargica, the sleeping sickness found in the U. S., this disease is caused by trypanosomes (parasitic protozoa) carried by the tsetse fly. Its toll is about 100,000 human victims a year and all the domestic animals the tsetse fly can find...
Francis' Disease. Dr. Edward Francis, U. S. Public Health Service, Washington, D. C., told his astonished audience the facts of tularemia (TIME, July 23, 1923). Long known as "rabbit fever" among land-workers for its annual toll of thousands of rabbits and ground squirrels, this disease has been recognized as dangerous to man only in the last three years. Discovered in Tulare County, Calif. (1910), it was named tularemia. The germ in man was identified by Public Heath Server Francis in 1925, and the disease is known among the profession as "Francis' disease." Peering through microscope, poring over...