Word: tolls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...doesn't hold water and the objections to it still do. A short-of-war position is tenable now, and hemispheric defense is as potentially strong as we choose to make it. After our recent seasickness, we should know that an ocean trip is bad for our Constitution. The toll of the war has not even been estimated by anyone in authority, nor the length of it. Nevertheless, we like Conant's way of putting it, because it is such a pleasant contrast to official Washington. He has more liberty speaking as a "private citizen," some...
Main reasons for peak earnings: booming business has brought a 25% increase in toll calls and so many new subscribers that the year's gains may reach 1,500,000 phones-up 50% over the previous record year's rise. To handle all this added business, President Gifford announced plans to spend $400,000,000 (up almost 40% over 1940) for new equipment this year...
...Their major effort was southward, into the Serbian hills. They counterattacked near Kragujevac, General Simovitch's birthplace - traditional home of the Obrenovitch dynasty. Their strongest push was into a rugged defile known as Kachanik Pass. There they claimed to have destroyed 90 German tanks, to have taken great toll of man power, to have checked the German drive...
...bells began to toll for the holding companies last month, when SEC told $589,000,000 United Light & Power to dissolve its scattered system. United bowed, agreed to integrate around its Kansas City property, prepared to sell its outlying properties and use the money to pay off its own bonds. Next came the turn of $766,000,000 Standard Gas & Electric, which has already cooperated to the extent of having paid off $6,500,000 of its bonds with 40% of its original holdings of San Diego Gas & Electric...
...Chemistry has not been curtailed and tutorial will probably be up to the same standards as this year. The story is the same in Physics, where minor slices in faculty and tutorial will account for the decrease in funds. In none of these fields has the draft taken toll of the faculty...