Word: tolls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bryans continued to prosper, branched out into Richmond real estate, put up a private toll bridge across the James...
...tally was in, Dan Hoan was out. Exclaimed exultant, shining-faced Mr. Zeidler: "I used nothing else than modern merchandising methods. See 'em, tell 'em, sell 'em." Said Dan Hoan: "I leave my public tasks "with no rancor." Commented the Washington Post: "Time takes its toll even of gratitude. The people of Athens got tired of hearing Aristides called the just and the people of Milwaukee apparently got tired of Daniel Webster Hoan for no better reason. Hoan, the Socialist, had nothing to offer them but a continuation of a satisfactory status...
That long night had left a legacy of scandals, crime, debts, but some good things too: a network of badly needed, Long-built roads, the towering 33-story Capitol, free bridges where there had been toll bridges and ferries, free textbooks, the magnificent physical plant of the University. And one part of Huey Long's inheritance unemotional Governor-elect Sam Jones was never likely to invade: the folklore that Long inspired, the tales of his Kingfish cleverness and rascality gleefully repeated in country stores and country cabins, the vague, contradictory feeling that he somehow stood for the poor...
Miss Claudius could be mean. She was always chasing children out of her littered yard, sometimes caught and beat them. Once she saw a man short-cutting through her yard, made him pay 10? toll. Miss Claudius probably saved the dime. She spent almost no money, had no heat, light, water in her house. For a bathroom she used the Ladies' Room at the Lincoln Savings Bank. At closing time one afternoon, the employes heard strange noises in the Ladies' Room. Miss Claudius was inside, reading aloud from a law book. She knew and could quote...
...crew, slide up & down Alaska's snowy roads behind five-ton caterpillar tractors. The Richardson Highway, only road in to Fairbanks (not fit for wagons until 1910), does not run away with Ohlson's traffic, because the Government charges commercial trucking on the Highway $9.20 per ton toll and because Ohlson gets permission to cut his freight rates each summer as soon as the roads become passable for trucks...