Word: tolls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...enterprising John Hancock who in 1786 spanned the Charles despite objections from the Harvard Corporation that such facile communication would disturb the College's scholars and be conducive to corrupting their morals. Hancock silenced the President and Fellows with a grant of two hundred pounds per annum for the toll bridge concession. But Hancock's profitable monopoly suffered thereupon from a bridge-building craze which lasted down to 1858 when the Commonwealth took over all the bridges. Harvard, in the meantime, continuing to assess each bridge entrepreneur for two or three hundred pounds, suffered no ill-effects...
Thus this week the peril of mines added to its toll of more than 6,300 lives taken since war's end. The toll would surely rise; there are still hundreds of thousands of live mines in unswept fields close to main shipping channels. The danger of floaters would remain for many years. Greece, Sardinia and Sicily were almost surrounded by minefields. Off the Channel coasts and The Netherlands and Denmark, near Eire and Iceland were thousands of mines. The U.S. coasts were believed to be swept clean...
...National Safety Council reported that the 1946 traffic toll would be about 34,000 killed-5,000 more than the year before but still less than the record 39,969 killed...
...airlines' heavier death toll had been caused by more traffic, and more congestion at airports (many of them inadequate). One hope of betterment lay in the fact that "ground-controlled approach," in which radar is used to guide a pilot on to a field he cannot see, was being installed at New York, Chicago and Washington airports. Pan American Airways had put it in at Gander, Newfoundland (after a Belgian airliner crashed there, killing 27). If used at all large airports, G.C.A. might cut airline fatalities in half...
...From Christmas Eve to mid-afternoon of Dec. 25, car-happy Los Angeles County counted 24 dead in 340 major traffic accidents. The national Christmas traffic toll...