Word: tolls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Static. Many FCC commissioners predict privately that not enough of the public will pay for toll TV to make it practical. Although the FCC's decision will help resolve the issue, it will also set up many hurdles for pay-TV proponents...
Estimates of the death toll ran from 75 to 200; the dead included two navy captains and the commandant of the maritime police. The army colonel in charge of mop-up operations was wounded. Three rebel navy officers, 13 enlisted men and three maritime police were captured and flown to Havana to face a rough round of questioning on how the revolt got started. Batista's troops began a house-to-house search for a reported 2,000 guns distributed to civilians from the arsenal...
...bottom of the hill, the train came apart. The twin diesel locomotives rocketed on down the track, pulling the freight cars with them. Five cars plunged into a field; three others pounded one another to confused wreckage on the tracks. Another was derailed in a narrow cut. The toll: 178 dead and nearly 700 injured-biggest Western Hemisphere railroad death total since a Mexican train wreck killed approximately...
SEAWAY BATTLE over St. Lawrence will flare up again next month when U.S. and Canadian governments begin work on setting toll rates. Eastern businessmen, railroadmen, truckers and shippers (who originally opposed seaway, now favor it) have formed 22-state group to fight for high tolls, which would make Midwestern ports less competitive. But Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Association is lobbying hard for rock-bottom tolls in first years of the seaway to attract new business...
...whatever economic benefit they bring, or fail to bring to farmers, federal farm programs exact a toll in morale. TIME correspondents in all major agricultural regions found farmers who wanted to talk "off the record" about temptations to dishonesty under the program. One Indianan sold the topsoil off a field and put the barren ground into a soil bank; a group of Californians use soil-banked acres to start future fruit orchards. Says Lynn Larson, who holds a city job to fatten his lean income from a 2O9-acre farm near East Garland, Utah: "Under these federal programs, the farmers...