Word: toll
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crew members parachuted to safety. Two days later a rescue plane taking off from Tampa, Fla. to join the Bermuda hunt spouted smoke and flames from its No. 4 engine, swung back to the field but plowed into the tideland muck 500 feet short of the runway. The toll: five dead. So far in November two other B-29s had gone down, both because of engine trouble. Air Force Chief of Staff Hoyt Vandenberg grounded all B-29s whose engines had not been overhauled and modernized...
...obviously imperative that these two structures be demolished. Otherwise this clear and present danger to safety will continue to take its toll from hapless students and local residents. It should be pointed out that these buildings are antiquated and serve no useful purpose; that they could profitably be replaced by a non-obstructive memorial park or playground. There is no alternative--advocates of a traffic light for a corner should realize that lights cost upwards of 250 dollars apiece, and that this year's Cambridge allotment is ear-marked for installation in concentric rings surrounding the Harvard Square Circle--there...
...shortest and fastest route to the game site is over Route 9 (Worcester Turnpike) from Boston to Route 20 outside Framingham, then to Route 15 to the Charter Oak toll bridge. This leads to U.S. Route 5 into Meridan, Conn., and onto the Wilbur Cross Parkway...
...among them famed Cartoonist Helen Hokinson (see PRESS), Congressman George J. Bates of Massachusetts-had died in the river or in a horrid welter of broken bodies, smashed baggage and torn metal on shore. One woman lived long enough to die in a hospital. It was the biggest death toll in U.S. airline history...
...haunt his life and give it purpose. One out of every three women who entered the First Division ward died of childbed fever; most victims' babies died too. In other parts of the world the story was even grimmer. At Jena over a four-year period, the death toll among infection victims was 100%. Among "causes" of the fever, doctors who had never heard of the germ theory listed wounded modesty, cosmic-telluric influences, fear, bad ventilation, climate and a feeling of guilt...