Word: tolls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Orgy in Egypt. Two days later the Arabs struck in Egypt, a country noted for its tolerance of minorities. In Cairo, Alexandria and other towns, anti-Zionist demonstrations ended as indiscriminate orgies of looting, rioting, burning. Cairo's one-day toll: several dead, 230 injured (including 90 Egyptian policemen). In Alexandria another 200 were hurt. In both cities scores of foreign stores were damaged. Egypt's firm, tight-lipped Premier, Mahmoud Fahmy El Nokrashy Pasha, and its British Acting Police Commandant, Major General T. W. Fitzpatrick, were angry but optimistic...
...finally came to the end of the incredibly complicated financial web of forgeries, theft, fraudulent bookkeeping, and companies which existed only in Kreugers imagination. As trustee of the bankrupt International Match Corp., an American concern and biggest of 140-odd subsidiaries of the huge holding company, A/B Kreuger & Toll; Irving Trust submitted its final, 171-page report on its stewardship. The box score...
...week there were storm warnings. Army flyers had spotted a Caribbean hurricane veering toward Florida. For days, the nation had almost minute-by-minute reports on its progress. When it finally struck, along the Florida keys and the lush resort towns, it hit at 143 miles an hour. The toll in lives was low (three), in damage high ($50 millions). Then the hurricane veered out to sea again...
...week's end the death toll had mounted to 16 (out of 70 who had been at work in No. 5), with four men still missing and bodies still being found in the wreckage. Another 34, all badly burned, crippled and blinded, were in Port Arthur hospitals...
...program is the quick installation of 2,000,000 new telephones for war-deprived subscribers, plus replacement of 800,000 old telephones which should have been junked long ago. To speed up its long distance service, A.T.& T. will construct 3½ million miles of toll circuits. It will also complete a transcontinental and a north-south (Chicago to New Orleans) cable, each capable of handling telephone conversations and television channels at once...