Word: tolls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...five weeks of practice, almost every body had worked out his own signals. But since it was impossible not to tramp, instinctively, on the brakes when the driver ahead began his alarming arm flapping, the accident toll was diminishing. In the face of the sternest handicaps, down-East individualism was still proving...
...week's end, French police had found the miller who ground the ergot-laden rye and a man who acknowledged selling him the grain, charged them both with involuntary homicide. In Pont-Saint-Esprit, the toll of illness passed 200; four had died, 28 were still on the critical list. France considered itself lucky: all the contaminated grain seemed to have gone into that one bag of flour delivered to Baker Roch Briand...
...Delaware Memorial Bridge. Delaware's Governor Elbert Carvel was waiting at Pigeon Point, just below Wilmington on the Delaware side. After appropriate speeches and snipping of ribbons, the long lines of waiting trucks and cars started across the $44 million span. Within 24 hours, 20,000 paid toll to bypass the tedious old New Castle-Pennsville ferry; they saved an average two hours on the Jersey route between New York and points south...
...details that caught Kelemen's eye were in a crumbling state. Even in a few years' time, "the volcano of Paricutin in Mexico . . . floods in Guatemala, seismic catastrophes in El Salvador and Ecuador, civil strife in Colombia and an earthquake in Cuzco have all taken a tragic toll." Worst of all, according to Kelemen: civil authorities who are letting local masterpieces deteriorate through neglect-or are tearing them down to make way for widened streets and modern buildings...
Through '41 and '42, as the U-boats up their toll of Allied vessels, the Compass Rose rides dogged herd on its sheeplike formations, manages to bag one enemy sub. Then a night torpedo sends the corvette herself to the bottom. Only eleven of her officers and crew of 88, among them Captain Ericson and First Officer Lockhart, survive. These two, in the frigate Saltash, see the war against the U-boats shift from woefully inadequate defense to ruthlessly efficient pursuit...