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...plumbing is particularly vulnerable to freezing. The combination of pipes bursting in the 16° weather, and people continuously running tap water (a common precaution against frozen pipes) left the city with critically low water pressure. Twenty-three miles upriver from New Orleans, a grain elevator in Destrehan (pop. 1,760) burst in the 18° cold, spewing out 1.5 million bushels of wheat that crushed an adjacent cafeteria...
...largest grain exporters, Bunge Corp., became the first of those companies to accept the judicial consequences. Bunge, a privately held firm, pleaded no contest to a federal charge that it had for almost twelve years, until June 1973, short weigh ted ship cargoes at its two grain elevators in Destrehan, La., and Galveston, Texas. The company also offered no defense against a charge that it used false invoices to market surreptitiously to U.S. companies every three or four months up to 25,000 bushels of the leftover grain-in effect stolen from foreign customers...
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