Word: tolls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cancer's estimated annual worldwide toll: 1,000,000. *The paramecium, a slipper-shaped animalcule less than 1/125 of an inch long, comes in eight sexes, multiples by dividing itself in two, lives in lily ponds, goldfish bowls, is sometimes found in drinking water...
...real toll was far from negligible. The coal industry had lost some 25,000,000 tons in all. The steel industry had lost more than 1,000,000 tons (enough to make 396,000 automobiles). Steel production was scheduled at 69.8% of capacity this week, but would take another two weeks to get back to its pre-strike level...
...nation would remember 1946 as its worst polio year in three decades. The year's toll so far: 22,371 cases (approaching 1916's record 27,000). Cost of treatment, $4,000,000, had almost wiped out the emergency aid fund of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. Polio news was mostly bad: 1946 is the fourth consecutive epidemic year. The four-year total: 65,000 cases, more than twice as many as in the preceding quadrennium...
...came in, dripping wet, from a rainswept rooftop that overlooked the prison wall. To the U.P.'s Clinton Conger and the ü German DANA Agency, who had posted them, they reported seeing groups of helmeted men moving from the jail to the gymnasium. They had heard a bell toll, heard a crashing sound repeated only six times. The Germans surmised that the eleven Nazis had probably been hanged in pairs - but Conger decided to wait before filing...
Bachelors of Arts: Edward Thomas Bello, James Edward Donovan Jr., Franklin Seward Garfield, Clement Granoff, William John Maher, Henry Murr Nations, Thomas Patrick John O'Keefe, Paul Resnick, Henry Grant Toll, Carl Edward Toomey...