Word: tolls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...miles in north central Pennsylvania to assemble jet engines and 5,000 acres in New Jersey's Ramapo Hills for a bombproof headquarters. The petroleum industry has set up five regional committees to run the natural gas and oil industry in each area, and A.T.& T. arranged alternate toll-call routes and emergency generators. One company has even stocked its secret rendezvous with disaster pay checks printed on distinctive notepaper and made out in standard amounts...
...seething mass, the maimed trying to escape, the unhurt pressing forward to see more. It was five minutes before fire crews could get to Levegh's smoldering wreck, a good half hour before private cars, trucks and every ambulance in town started to work carting off casualties. Toll at week's end: 78 dead, 105 seriously injured...
...houses, 170 were smashed to bits, 16 damaged beyond repair and only one left unscathed. Almost all property and automobiles were wrecked. The city hall, three churches, the old grade school and new $250,000 high school were destroyed. For its size, Udall had suffered the worst tornado toll in history. Paper and debris from Udall were picked up dozens of miles away, but none of Aileen Holtje's wedding presents were found, except-three days later some yellow and lavender sheeting...
...will get a dress rehearsal in Washington. To demonstrate its Phonevision system of toll TV to FCC, Congressmen and a broadcasters' convention this week, Zenith Radio Corp. has teamed up with WMAL-TV to transmit live programs and special movies during the morning hours to some 50 Zenith receivers set up in the capital...
...poll conducted by the Federal Communications Commission is running heavily in favor of the idea, sponsored by three companies (Zenith, Skiatron, International Telemeter Corp.). In the three months since FCC invited "public advice" on whether it should permit toll TV, it has received nearly 10,000 letters, telegrams and postcards from viewers, with all but 1,500 approving the plan...