Word: tolls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Each Armistice Day reminds us of the World War and the awful toll of death and suffering it brought to all humanity. If we are to avoid another such holocaust and if peace is to be maintained in Europe, a continent now fraught with jealousies and ripe for another conflict, there must be real disarmament. All the treaties and pacts in the world renouncing war will not suffice unless they provide for concrete reductions in military forces by all nations," continued Senator Walsh...
Although timid visitors at Yellowstone National Park have often been scared by bears, they have seldom been harmed by them. Last week Roger W. Toll, Yellowstone's superintendent, announced that he has just exactly the right number of bears in his park. Last fortnight he gave away seven grizzlies and two black bears. He has 160 grizzlies, 450 black bears left. But if this number were allowed to increase, the food supply (berries, roots, garbage can contents) would not be enough to go around. Some of the animals would have to go hungry, might turn on small and tender...
Officials released figures on the hurricane's toll: dead 2,000; injured 6,000; gangrene cases 1,000; property damage...
Kreuger in Ericsson. Undoubtedly most famed of Swedish companies is Ivar Kreuger's Kreuger & Toll Co., holding company for Swedish match, international banks, large mines. But a close second is L. M. Ericsson Telephone Co. which wages successful battle against German's Siemens & Halske on one hand, International Telephone & Telegraph Corp. on the other. Good news in Sweden last week was the announcement that Ivar Kreuger has obtained a large block of Ericsson stock, that Kreuger & Toll will direct its many activities. Foiled apparently by the deal was I. T. & T., recently reported angling for Ericsson, and against...
...Hankow and the Communist army distracted world attention last week from China's other war, that of President Chiang Kai-shek fighting to maintain the Nationalist Government against the insurrection of the Peking warlords. Both factions, as usual, were claiming an equal number of victories, matching their toll of deaths and captures. Torrential floods actually stopped hostilities...