Word: tolls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lashed to a creamy forth by Union plans for a Dartmouth dance, the Social Committee protested that two dances would cut into House profits. A Union ticket fee of $1.80 as against a $3.60 toll at the House dances was regarded as a direct attempt to divert both Freshmen and bargain hunters from the Houses. Yet both Yard and House dances were sellouts. Again; when the Union scheduled a dance on the Princeton weekend, the inter-House Committee made similar protests. They asked the Union to switch its dance to the Brown weekend, so that the Houses would be certain...
Drastic Increases in British taxes next year were called for yesterday by the Labor government in its Autumn budget. The new program would double company earning lovies, greatly increase all excise taxes, and institute a new toll on football and dog race betting...
...first crash of a DC-6, luxurious, pressurized, 300-mile-an-hour craft which went into commercial service last spring. The toll was U.S. aviation's second highest (the highest: 53, killed last May in a DC-4 crash near Port Deposit, Md.). What caused the baggage fire was a question which might never be answered. All the baggage of Flight 608 was loaded into belly cargo pits through which passed no gasoline lines or electric wires. The pits carried automatic smoke indicators and extinguishing apparatus. It seemed unlikely that matches, cigarette lighters or other ordinary objects...
...epidemic in Texas killed 1,372 infants, more than the total U.S. death toll that year from infantile paralysis...
Like all Authority projects, the airports will have to pay their own way. Through the Authority's six bridges and tunnels* last year went 41,202,474 toll-paying motorists. In 19 years the Authority earned some $244,000,000 in toll charges, pier fees and rents. This covered its operating costs, and left $99,000,000 over for improvements, reserves and the reduction of its bonded debt, now $525,530,778. Its credit is such that one $18,757,000 bond, issue was sold at an interest rate of I.358%, lowest ever recorded for any municipal or state...