Word: tolls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...these activities are communistic because every man, woman and child pays directly or indirectly for their maintenance, whilst the benefits accruing from them are for the nation at large. Perhaps the finest example of official communism is our "Public Roads." Would anyone wish to go back to the old Toll Roads? Not much, I think. Communism is here to stay. It was taught by Jesus and practiced by the greatest nation the world has ever seen. It has already been adopted, more or less, by nearly all the world and it will expand gradually everywhere, with a spasmodic burst here...
Says Author Terrett, $1,000,000,000 "is a genuinely conservative estimate of the toll the rackets take from the purse of the American nation every year." Only Saps Work is his survey of U. S. racketeering, with particular consideration of New York. He found that Chicago's rackets get more publicity, New York's function more smoothly. "So adroitly are the rackets administered in the laundry and dry-cleaning industries, and the green vegetables, fruit, fish and ice trades that they are invisible to the naked...
Money lenders to sovereign States are the firm of Kreuger & Toll, financing company of "The Swedish Match Trust...
Kreuger & Toll. At the end of 1928. Kreuger & Toll Co. (Swedish matchmaking, banking, mining, real estate combine) was a $157,000,000 company boasting of $21,000,000 earnings. Last week Kreuger & Toll directors announced that now the company has assets of $350,000,000. earned last year $29,000,000 or 38% more than in 1928. Unlike the annual report of many a large U. S. company, stressing conditions in one industry, one region, one country, Kreuger & Toll's statement predicted prosperity for the company this year because: "It seems reasonable to assume that since some of the most...
...Barlow's plan. First express toll road in the U. S. was the Long Island Motor Parkway (TIME, Sept. 16). Four years ago highway officials of Wisconsin, Illinois and Indiana began to plan a tri-state motorway, 200 ft. wide, from Milwaukee, around the outskirts of Chicago, Hammond and Gary to the Michigan line. Of the 185 miles of right-of-way necessary for this toll road, 150 have been donated or leased. Last year plans were announced for a 25-mile elevated pavement for express motor travel over Grand Trunk R. R. tracks between Detroit and Pontiac, Mich. (TIME...