Word: tolls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years in exile, Henry Blackmer decided the time for his return had come. Last week he and his wife boarded an Air France plane at Paris and were flown to Boston. As they set out for Denver by train, it was easy to see that time had taken its toll with the Darling of the Gods. He was stooped and almost blind. But he still knew how to handle inquisitive reporters-he chuckled amiably, posed for photographs and said nothing...
...slowing down. By last week, U.S. Public Health Service chartmakers could point with confidence to the week ended Aug. 20 (in which 3,419 cases were reported) as the year's peak. Since then, the curve has been downward. But 1949 was certain to have a staggering polio toll marked against it: already 29,051 cases had been reported, and by year's end the total would be nearer...
...than the Golden Gate Bridge and rises 135 feet above the high water level of the Mystic River--the same clearance as the Brooklyn Bridge has over the East River. Carrying one-way traffic on each, the two decks are 36 feet wide all the way except through the toll plaza near the middle of the bridge. The actual length of the main span over the Mystic River is 800 feet...
...bridge is a very expensive undertaking--so expensive that neither the cities of Boston and Chelsea nor the State of Massachusetts could stand the necessary tax burden. Thus, the financing of the 27 million dollar project is being handled by a group of private investors who will operate the toll system on the bridge until the capital plus interest is paid off. By 1978, the toll profits should exceed the original cost and the bridge, as per previous agreement, will became public property...
Thus in a recent issue of BBC's The Listener, testy, old (64) Artist-Author Wyndham Lewis* rings a knell for his fellow English painters. One reason for the bell's toll, says Lewis, is high taxes which sop up the spare cash of collectors who were once well-to-do. Other reasons for the artist's sad state: his expenses have more than doubled in recent years; dealers demand 337% commission on everything they sell...