Word: tolls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some of them tried to escape in barges across Kula Gulf to Vila on Kolombangara Island. PT boats operating in the dark gulf took a heavy toll. The original Jap garrison at Bairoko was estimated at 400 men, probably increased later by troops retreating from Munda, twelve miles south...
...drought will probably cost John Stiles and his Maryland neighbors: 10 to 25% in milk, 37% in corn, 50% in late vegetables. In Virginia the potato crop was hit; in Delaware the dry spell took toll of tomatoes, limas, string beans, peaches. Total estimated crop damage in states bordering Washington, D.C.: $50 million...
Home Security Minister Herbert Morrison has an uncomplicated reason for continuing the blackout: lights would guide the Luftwaffe, illuminate its targets. Campaigners against the blackout answer with statistics: since war began 15,000 Britons have died on black-out roads, 160,000 have been injured. This winter's toll will be about 4,000 killed and 40,000 injured...
Police chiefs, convening in Detroit, were told that gas and tire shortages have cut the nation's staggering traffic toll only by about one-third. Total U.S. traffic deaths in the past 21 months: 40,000 (in the 21 months before Pearl Harbor: about 64,000). Injured: 1,400,000 (100,000 permanently...
...announcement. The action, affecting the transport of an esti mated 250,000 men per year, will force the Nazis to change to sea routes, both in the North Sea (to northern Norway) and in the Baltic (to Finland), where Allied air and naval strength can take its toll of precious ships. Hitler's hold on both Norway and Finland was weakened. But by week's end Germany had not revoked safe-conduct permits for neutral Sweden's shipping with the outside world...