Word: tolls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tollbooths that gobble up the loose change of American drivers as they sweep through bridges, tunnels and turnpikes ring up record profits every year. In 1966, toll-road traffic in the U.S. will increase by 10% over 1965, to 750 million vehicles. The new Verrazano-Narrows Bridge across the mouth of New York harbor earned $11 million in the year ending last July; in 1965, the six tunnels and bridges controlled by the Port of New York Authority grossed $64 million...
...biggest and newest toll in trouble is the $200 million Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel. With a trestle highway broken by two bridges and two tunnels, it covers 17½ miles between Norfolk and Cape Charles, across the stormy mouth of Chesapeake Bay. It is an engineering wonder that cuts the old 1½-hour ferry ride to 25 minutes of scenic driving. But traffic is only a little over half of what the experts predicted. As a result, revenue is not enough to provide the interest on the $200 million in bonds issued by the bridge-tunnel. Interest charges...
...Reasons. One reason for the sparse traffic is the steep toll-$4 for car and driver, plus 85? for each passenger older than six. Another explanation: early completion of Interstate 95, which provides a competing route farther inland. Besides, an expected economic boom in the Norfolk-Virginia Beach area has simply not materialized...
Part of the affected territory is uninhabited wasteland of little value, but much of it is valuable timberland where losses will amount to millions of dollars. For Alaskans, money and inconvenience are not the only toll: they worry about the wildlife that is endangered. The West Fork, Cement Creek and Matson Creek fires are burning through some of the finest caribou grazing lands in the state. The herds feed on forest-floor vegetation called "caribou moss," which takes between 100 and 150 years to grow...
...Lucky." The savage fate of Dengler's companion was shared by six U.S. Marines wounded in a fierce mor tar barrage near the 17th parallel, where Operation Hastings continued to take a heavy toll of Red dead last week. The Marines, helpless and unreachable by their own medical corpsmen, were mercilessly slaughtered by North Vietnamese regulars. "During the night, the North Viets came," said one survivor of the massacre, a radio operator whose abdomen had been ripped by shell fragments. "They took my cigarettes and my watch, but they didn't shoot me. They must have looked...