Word: tolls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Commissioner and lieutenant colonel in the A.E.F.; of bronchopneumonia; in Manhattan. In 1921 Grayson Murphy laid the foundation of his financial reputation by skillfully reorganizing Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. Last year a committee he headed salvaged for debenture holders what little there was to be salvaged from the Kreuger & Toll disaster. Little known outside of Wall Street, Grayson Murphy was not only a Republican who shot grouse in Scotland, but in 1928 a Liberal (meaning wet) Republican and one of the first big businessmen to speak out sternly against the 18th Amendment...
...road. Only bottlenecks will be the two-lane tunnels. The almost $400,000-a-mile cost to widen and surface the road, to drain and finish boring tunnels, to employ an estimated 17,000 men for three years, is to be paid for by the eventual users-$1 toll per car, $7 for trucks...
...death rate per car mile was up only 3%. Deaths in June were down to 2,860 as against 2,905 for June 1936. President Paul Gray Hoffman of Studebaker Corp., head of the Automotive Safety Foundation, honored five States with a statement that last year's death toll of 37,800 would have been smaller by 13,000 if all States had traffic regulations as intelligent as those in Rhode Island, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Iowa...
After the War, the owners of the Parkway turned it into a toll road. At 50? per car or $110 per season, some 290,000 automobiles used the speedy road annually during the next decade. It was the best route to the swanky Hamptons. Lately, however, the development of great trunk parkways along Long Island, parallel to their curvy forebear, has cut its traffic to a bare 23,000 cars in 1936. Last week, bored with paying some $45,000 a year in taxes, Mr. Vanderbilt offered to give the old Parkway, which is now assessed...
...Remarkable in being built completely without Federal financial aid, the Golden Gate Bridge will repay its bondholders by tolls like those on San Francisco's other great bridge across the bay to Oakland. Last week, after six months' operation, 4,408,092 vehicles had crossed the Bay Bridge, yielding tolls of $2,575,500. Traffic has been so much greater than expected that the toll was cut from...