Word: tolls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What many a through motorist, delayed by local traffic, has long wished for, lay behind Bills introduced in the New York legislature last week to incorporate New York & New England Motorways Corp. Proposed was a high-speed, four-track toll boulevard between New York City's northern rim and New Haven, Conn. (85 mi.). Two hundred million dollars private capital would construct, maintain and police the project. All crossroads would be bridged over. The centre roadways, divided by a metal fence, would have a minimum speed limit of 35 m. p. h. Slower traffic would move on the outer lanes...
...month or six weeks old; if they tumble into the water earlier they drown. Like all Pribilof seals, they take part in the winter excursion, leaving with their mothers in November. Female pups begin to bear young in three years. With the exception of the Indians' yearly toll only the adolescent "bachelor" seals are now allowed to be killed for their...
...Toll calls are being handled at an average speed of 2.4 minutes against 7.5 minutes five years ago. New York Telephone Co. has reduced the time from 6.9 to 2.1 minutes...
Kreuger & Toll. Another match monopoly and another bank merger were among the news items of last week in the offices of Matchmaker Ivar Kreuger. The match monopoly, obtained from the free city of Danzig, will last 35 years. To obtain it, Kreuger & Toll paid the city about $195,000. will make small annual payments, will also buy a $1,000,000 6% bond issue at 93. The bank merger was done through the Kreuger & Toll-controlled Deutsche Union Bank of Berlin, consisted of joining the Preussiche Pfandbriefbank (Kreuger & Toll-controlled) and Central Boden Kredit A. G., into the Preussiche Central...
...Think for a brief moment of the toll of submarine disasters even since...