Word: tolls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the eight-mile-long parade started over the mountains to Harrisburg next morning it was accompanied by a car full of medical supplies donated by the people of Huntingdon. Nobody paid and nobody tried to collect the 10¢ toll at the Clarks Ferry bridge (over the Susquehanna River). From time to time wheezy motors gave out. Once the bread trucks were hours behind time, but somehow they kept on going. Troopers patrolling the march discreetly looked the other way when they saw a 1931 automobile license in the line. Governor Pinchot had ordered the stringent State law relaxed...
Kreuger in LL S- Potent in the U. S. match business is Ivar Kreuger, match tycoon of the world. Vulcan Match Co. (subsidiary of International Match Corp. which in turn is controlled by Swedish Match Co., Kreuger & Toll unit) has long sold imported Swedish matches in the U. S., made none of its own. The recent tariff on matches has made this business less profitable, has made it seem likely that Herr Kreuger would acquire a U. S. factory. Once it was widely thought that he had bought a big interest in Diamond Match Co., biggest...
...further speed up the returning cars, arrangements have been made with the management of the Bear Mountain Bridge to sell round trip tickets to the motorists on their way to the game, so that on their return they will not have to stop and pay toll a second time...
...usual in Central American catastrophes, Pan American Airways got the news out to the world first. The dead were originally reported at 150, then at 400, later at 700. When the known toll reached 1,000 (Belize had 13,000 inhabitants), the authorities stopped counting, looked for corpses no longer. It would have been impossible to bury them before they started spreading disease. Bodies already found were dumped into convict-dug trenches. The rest were thrown on pyres made of badly demolished buildings, including the Jesuit college where many unidentified victims must have been killed...
First spark of trouble came from swart Communist Senator Maldonado. He rose in the Senate, condemned the monopoly, demanded that the Government withdraw it. Up jumped Senator Cueva Garcia to remind the Senators that if the monopoly were cancelled, Ecuador would have to repay Kreuger & Toll's $2,000,000 loan. That might be awkward. A melee followed. Somebody got a message to Garcia that a mob was waiting for him outside. Colleagues spirited him away to safety. The monopoly was withdrawn...