Word: tolls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...excitement in "graveyard" bond issues, i.e., defaulted bonds of satellite countries. A flurry of trading sent Polish bonds scampering from 8 to 13, the highest price since 1949. Estonian issues jumped from 11⅞ to 15, the highest they had climbed since 1947. Overnight, an issue of Kreuger & Toll bonds, backed by assets frozen in Hungary, more than doubled in price from ¾ to 1¾. None of them had an apparent value. But speculators were hoping that Stalin's death might shake satellite countries loose from Russia, and that they might pay off the bonds...
...Belgium, where the flood waters spread over 40,000 acres and took a toll of 14 lives, 22-year-old King Baudouin, less royally gifted with a sense of fitness, raised another storm by leaving his country in mid-disaster to sojourn with his father, deposed King Leopold II, on the balmy French Riviera...
Last week a collection of cold government statistics showed how hot is a civil war the rest of the world has known little and cared less about. Darul Islam's toll during 1952: 1,836 murders (average: five a day), 461 kidnapings, 1,201 tortured, 6,934 houses burned, 14,075 robberies. Commenting on the figures, Indonesian Communications Minister Dr. Raden Djuanda gingerly surmised: "It might be well to study the situation...
This week the known dead in four countries reached more than 1,000, and authorities feared an even greater toll...
...sniffles and a splitting headache. Another day showed weakness in his right arm. John Kidder walked into a hospital and was put to bed. Since that day in June of 1951, he has never been able to get out of bed unaided. Polio, which is yearly taking a higher toll of adults, had spared the Kidder children but struck the father. As he puts it: "From active good health I was transformed in two short days into a motionless hulk...