Word: tolls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rosewall to prevent the first all-American finals in the National since 1950. Armed with cunning and the best backhand among amateurs, little (5 ft. 7 in., 145 lbs.) Ken fought a war of maneuver from the baseline. But Trabert's cannonading returns took a steady toll. Rosewall, too, went down in straight sets, 7-5, 6-3, 6-3. For the moment, at least, Australia's grip on the U.S. singles crown was unclenched...
...sadly deficient, the U.S. is falling behind in its rebuilding at the rate of about 5,000 miles a year; up to $50 billion could be profitably spent on roads alone in the next ten years. Many of the new highways now planned or building will be self-liquidating toll roads, like the successful Pennsylvania and New Jersey turnpikes. Massachusetts, for example, will start one such $200 million cross-state toll highway by the end of this year; Kansas is considering a new superhighway from Kansas City to Wichita; Ohio is just now launching a $326 million east-west toll...
...fissures down which a few islanders had perished; they dropped food and water from helicopters in the hills; they evacuated the wounded and buried the dead. More food, drugs, clothing, even prefabricated houses were also on the way. From Germany, the U.S. airlifted three tons of blood plasma. The toll: some 600 islanders dead, 700 seriously injured, 4,000 hurt and 100,000 homeless...
OHIO'S Turnpike Commission, waking up to the fact that trucks will provide two-thirds of its revenue, now plans to spot special parking areas, restaurants and sleeping quarters for truckers along its new 241-mile, $326-million toll highway...
...several thousand taxis cruise the city in all directions-everyone in a crazy race to get somewhere (where, nobody knows). Upper highways, level highways, underground highways, tunnels, bridges connecting island with cities, suburbs with suburbs, states with states-all with hundreds of signs: "Keep to the left . . . Pay toll here . . . Pay toll there . . . Stop . . . Slow . . . Minimum speed . . . Maximum speed . . .Traffic merging . . . Low clearance." Watch for this; watch for that; unlawful to do this; unlawful to do that-and millions of human beings gracefully obeying all of these signs...