Word: tolls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...commercial telephone television is yet by any means practical. First, it is too expensive. A roomful of light transforming equipment, another roomful of motors, and at least two expert engineers are needed for each sending receiving station. The transmission cost, without figuring equipment, is more than 20 times ordinary toll rates. A. T. & T. is experimenting because it feels that sometime a practical use for television may crop up. Only uses conceived so far: for separated sweethearts, for identifying criminals, for the convenience of bank depositors who want to cash checks away from home...
Matches. Far flung are the operations of Kreuger & Toll Co., holding company for the great "Swedish Match Trust," for 21 industrial banking and real estate operations, for the Grangesberg Co. iron mines (Europe's biggest), for the control of L. M. Ericsson Telephone Co. Master of its many operations, getter of its match monopolies is close-shaven,quick-speaking Ivar Kreuger, self-made, much publicized "world's richest bachelor." To shareholders last week he reported that Kreuger & Toll during 1930 earned $24,163,000 from dividends and interest received, against $14,278,000 from those sources in 1929. Trading profits...
...that Porto Rico's resources, natural and economic, are exhausted. Birth Control, seriously agitated in the insular government, is blocked by the dominant Roman Catholic Church. Poverty and hunger are on all sides. A laborer is lucky to make $150 per year. Hookworm and tubercu- losis take a heavy toll. The hurricane of 1928 (called "San Filipe" by the natives) struck the island a $100,000,000 blow from which it is still staggering. The 1929 sugar price slump hit the island's chief source of income. Tourist trade, despite the fine big Condado-Vanderbilt Hotel in San Juan...
Germany and Austria and many of the countries of Central Europe look with favor on the proposal, maintaining that the union is purely economic and hence does not violate the peace treaties. Germany claims, in addition, that the toll union is the first practical step toward the realization of the Pan-European ideal which France now champions...
...bridge but the company of the same name which owns it began to sway dangerously. Business depression has caused traffic to fall off. Competing ferries have cut their rates viciously rather than go out of business. Traffic has been diverted into the new Detroit-Canada Tunnel. During 1930 toll revenue was $892,000, operating expenses?$328,000. But by the time all charges were computed the bridge company had a $1,367,000 loss. Last week common and preferred stockholders realized they had no equity behind their securities, holders of the $8,000,000 7% debentures did not receive interest...