Word: tolls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...money-makers ever produced. It wanted to see the new superproduction, the Gone With the Wind with hair on its chest and ideology in its hair. It wanted to see precisely for whom, in Paramount's endlessly considered and fabulously invested opinion, The Bell did, or did not, toll...
...stresses of girding for war finally took their toll. As the summer heat cooked the land, strained tempers reached boiling point. Race riots broke out in Beaumont, Tex.; shortly the bloodiest in years was raging in Detroit...
After 24 nightmarish hours, Detroit was quieted down, counted the toll of one of the worst riots in modern U.S. history: at least 23 dead, over 700 injured, over 600 jailed. Of the dead Negroes, police had shot at least eight...
...bolstered .45 gun on his hip, a tommy gun cradled in his arm. To demands for "that nigger raper" Sheriff Richardson replied: "I haven't any such man. . . . Now get back to building ships where you ought to be." The crowd drifted away. Beaumont counted the riot toll: 1 dead white man; 1 dead Negro, 50 treated for injuries, 100 arrested...
...Lawrence River needs a channel for ocean-going ships that would give the heartlands of the North American continent dock frontage on the seven seas. The U.S. can pay for it in toll receipts at an overall cost no greater than one day of this...