Word: tolls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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LONDON -- The 9,141-ton British tanker Inverlane struck a mine and burned at sea with a probable death toll of 33, it was revealed tonight when survivors were landed from another mined tanker, the Atheltemplar, which witnessed the Inverlane...
Only three vessels were torpedoed by Nazi submarines last week. Yet the toll of merchant tonnage and civilian lives taken at sea by Germany was the greatest for any week of the war to date. Twenty-one ships totalling 93,300 tons of Allied and neutral shipping went to the bottom. More than 200 persons were killed, some 100 of them in one sinking which rivaled the Athenia as the war's foremost "atrocity...
...Island Sound to the tip of Maine it cut a swath 300 miles long, 100 miles wide. With its blast it felled 2,250,000,000 board feet of lumber. To get this average five-year cut into ponds, into neat stacks before bark beetles and fire took their toll, the Department of Agriculture's Northeast Timber Salvage Administration went to work. By last September it had bought 600,000,000 feet of hurricane timber from some 30,000 owners for an over-all cost of better than $20 a thousand board feet, looked around for a buyer...
Victory hungry Elis were forced into extreme action this week after visiting team upon visiting team had taken the toll of the dog-house dwelling Yale bulldogs. In fact the Yale News tells of five seniors who have vowed to brave the elements in the cupola on Davenport College until the Blue eleven has a taste of victory...
...Chilean ore-at Sparrows Point, Md. Bethlehem Steel takes ores in from Cruz Grande, Chile (4,265 miles away) at a freight cost of $2.50 to $3.00 per ton, plus Panama Canal tolls of $7.20; since no toll need be paid on Chilean ore laid down in Portland (5,739 miles from Cruz Grande), it should be cheaper there...