Word: tolls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...anniversary of Pastor Niemoller's arrest, many a German church dared to toll its bells. In the U. S., 100,000 Protestant ministers were urged by Dr. Henry Smith Leiper of the Federal Council of Churches to preach sermons on "the modern Luther." Eleven oddly-assorted citizens (among them: Alf M. Landon, Walter Damrosch, C. I. O.'s Philip Murray, Harry Emerson Fosdick, Columbia University's Dr. Franz Boas) cabled Pastor Niemoller "our great admiration for your moral courage...
...toll roads, bypasses, etc., etc. 750 150 For railroad equipment to be purchased by the Government, leased to railroads...
...weeks ago (TIME, May 29). Essential nature of this contemplated program is known to be Federal-billions-into-capital-goods. To keep the program from further unbalancing the Budget, most projects in it are supposed to be self-liquidating. Governor Eccles lifted the veil to the extent of listing "toll roads, tunnels and bridges; rural rehabilitation and farm tenancy loans, especially in the South . . . extension of the rural electrification program; hospital and sanitation facilities . . . expansion of public housing." President Roosevelt referred specifically to the idea of U. S. investment in railroad equipment and said what was being studied...
...hours; all hope is lost." For the third time within a month a big modern submarine of a democratic navy had made a routine dive and somehow settled to the bottom. The U. S. S. Squalus lost 26 men, the British submarine Thetis, 99. The Phénix'?, toll...
Rental charge for one Mémophone is $10.60 a year, plus an installation charge of 21? for each entry on the table. The French bureau of pharmaceutical manufacturers has leased 24 instruments, two big automobile companies eight and six instruments respectively. The Mémophone cuts down toll charges by eliminating wrong numbers due to slips of memory or the finger. The practical Frenchmen who are boosting the Mémophone have assembled statistics showing that 15% to 17% of all hand-dialed calls are wrong numbers...