Word: tolls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Everywhere civilian-defense organizations had prepared for disaster in the form of enemy air raids. Now they met the flood emergency quickly and efficiently. The death toll was small: at week's end only twelve fatalities had been reported by the American Red Cross. But if deaths were few, discomfort was everywhere, and destruction so widespread that the Berlin radio reported the news in high glee...
Between Nov. 8 and last week, the Allied air forces in North Africa had shot down 1,253 Axis planes. In the last fortnight alone they had claimed 318 planes. The Allied toll for the whole period was 498 planes; for the fortnight, 100. Even making the necessary allowances, this record spelled first superiority, then supremacy...
...taken toll of the Times foreign staff. Crack Correspondent Byron Darnton was accidentally killed in New Guinea. Robert Post failed to return from a bomber trip over Wilhelmshaven. Fred Wilkins, long the Times's Manila correspondent, is a Jap prisoner. Other able, famed Timesmen, like Otto Tolischus (author of the recent Tokyo Record) and Hallett Abend (Ramparts of the Pacific), are now in the U.S. because the countries they covered are enemy-held...
...great a toll Allied planes and submarines had exacted of Japanese merchant shipping could only be estimated from the combat-colored reports of returning pilots and submarine skippers. Last week Secretary of the Navy Knox, in a St. Patrick's Day speech in Manhattan, guessed that 1,857,000 gross tons had been sunk, out of a prewar tonnage of 6,369,000. Knox hastily added that half the probable loss had been replaced by new construction, salvage and seizure of foreign vessels in Asiatic ports. Net Jap loss: about 14% of her merchant marine...
...work has taken its toll of astronomors. Shapley stated that four members of his staff, assigned to observing work at Bloemfontein, are in the South African Army. One was in Tobruk when the Axis captured the town and is believed to be a prisoner...