Word: tolls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After 48 laps, Vukovich made a pit stop, took on fuel and four new wheels, all in 49 seconds. He lost the lead momentarily, but five laps later he had it back. The heat and the grind began to take their toll. Cars broke down, and seven swerved into spectacular accidents in which no one was seriously hurt. Worn-out drivers turned their cars over to relief men. After 70 laps Carl Scarborough, 38, dropped out. Later that day, he died of heat exhaustion...
Furry refused to toll a House Committee in Washington whether he is or ever was a Communist, though he identified a Smith College professor as a member of & Red cell at Harvard from...
Died. Schuyler Merritt, 99, industrialist, nine-term (until 1936) Republican Congressman from Connecticut, and oldest Yale graduate (class of 1873); in Stamford, Conn. He campaigned for an express highway cutting through heavily traveled Connecticut, finally got a 37-mile, $21 million, landscaped toll road which opened in 1938 as the Merritt Parkway...
...outside Lahore, to move into the city and regain control. Ten thousand Pakistani troops put the city under martial law. Within six hours the revolution was over. The Red Cross counted 330 dead at first aid stations. Other dead, picked up and buried by relatives, probably raised the death toll to 1,000 or more...
...news like other correspondents. In Korea, McGraw-Hill reporters pay little attention to battles; they are more interested in the performance of trucks and jeeps for Fleet Owner, or of airplanes, for Aviation Week. Covering the recent European floods for Engineering News-Record, McGraw-Hill correspondents left the human toll to other reporters, instead filed detailed stories on dike construction and how future floods could be prevented...