Word: tolls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Result: 19 raiders lost, heaviest toll since last November...
Eyewitnesses Gearhart and Pearson raced through the rainy dark, found one man moaning, alive. They covered him with blankets, stacked luggage for a windbreak. But in a moment or two he died. Ambulance crews from the city and soldiers from nearby Fort Douglas counted up the toll: pilot, copilot, stewardess and 14 passengers, including two Sperry Gyroscope Co. officials and a year-old baby...
...must have concern for children above all," Jones said, since it is among them that famine takes its greatest toll. Widespread rickets among European children is being combated with vitamin concentrates, formerly shipped in five gallon lots via clipper, and now obtained in Denmark...
Slugging its way back to the 500 mark, the Varsity baseball team Saturday afternoon took the toll of Boston University, 15-7, at Riverside. Three homers and 18 hits were the Crimson's batting contribution to the offensive free...
...east-west as well as north-south routes, limits vehicles' weights to 19½ tons (way under that of bordering States). Kentucky, like a feudal baron astride the routes from the Midwest to the South, limits weights to 14 tons (liberalized last year from 9 tons), and exacts toll from highway commerce. Other blockades: Kansas (where trucks have to line up for hours to pass through ports of entry), South Carolina, Virginia, Delaware, Illinois, South Dakota, Texas...