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Word: tolls (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Kalmus changed his process for his next picture, Toll of the Sea (1922). It was the first to use Technicolor's present process (in which no filters are used but special dyes are added to the film). It grossed some $250,000, of which Technicolor got more than half, and it sent Kalmus to Hollywood. When Jack Warner grossed $3,500,000 with his Technicolored Gold Diggers of Broadway in 1929, Technicolor hit the big time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Fast Color | 3/22/1948 | See Source »

Reached last night in his North Station lair, a minor mogul of the B.&M. admitted he didn't know how long Snotrains have been running;"I couldn't even give you a judicious estimate. But let me toll you one thing, they're all equipped with luxurious modern air conditioned cars, and it only costs $3.25 round trip to North Conway...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Snotrain, Snobus Rescue Penniless But Eager Skiers | 2/12/1948 | See Source »

From the airways of Europe, the U.S. and the cold Atlantic last week came a monotonous toll of the dead and the lost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIR AGE: Then Silence | 2/9/1948 | See Source »

Thus another U.S. badman was sentimentally memorialized last week in a ballad freshly recorded for the jukebox trade. Carl Shelton, a country gunman like Jesse James, once held the rackets of all downstate Illinois in fief. His Prohibition Era battles with other gangs took a toll of more than 40 lives. He equipped his boys with dynamite, machine guns and a fleet of armored cars, once rented an airplane to bomb a rival's stronghold. Grey-haired, and living in semi-retirement on a 4,000-acre farm near Fairfield, Ill., he was shot one morning last October...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: He Left His Dear Old Mother | 1/26/1948 | See Source »

...moment, Jewish guns and bombs were speaking more loudly than the Arabs'. Last week Haganah militiamen, in steel helmets and khaki uniforms, began systematic retaliation against Arabs. In communal fights, Palestine's death toll swelled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: Heads Together | 12/22/1947 | See Source »

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