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...food they eat. Often invisible and immune to bacteriological attack, they damage plants, kill fish, slip undetected through sewage-treatment plants, and blanket entire cities with clouds of noxious vapor. Some, like sulphur dioxide, are clearly toxic-memorably so in the five-day siege of sulphurous smog in Donora, Pa. (pop. 13,000), which struck down 5,910 and killed 18 in October 1948. Others, doctors think, may have serious cumulative effects on human health-which will not show up for perhaps 20 or 30 years. Some may cause lung disease and consequent failure. Dr. John R. Heller, president...
...years ago a heavy fog invaded Donora, Pa. (pop. 14,000), was soon reinforced by smoke and dust particles from the hustling community's furnaces and fires. For almost a week, residents breathed the polluted air. By the time fresh winds came to the rescue, half of them were ill, 20 had died. "It could happen again," was the point that a handful of experts recently made clear on Pittsburgh's KDKA...
...huge new plants it has built near its busiest markets, e.g., the $600 million, 2,200,000-ton Fairless Works near Trenton, N.J. Last week U.S. Steel said it will shut the 72-year-old Rankin Works outside Pittsburgh, shift its production to the company's more efficient Donora Steel and Wire Works...
Musial has brightened big-league ball for 15 years. And baseball has been as good to the onetime southpaw pitcher who learned how to spin a left-handed curve on the grimy sandlots of Donora, Pa. For one thing, it kept him out of the zinc mills; even better, for the last five years the Cards have paid him $80,000 a season. Trading shrewdly on his reputation, he now owns half of a successful St. Louis restaurant (Stan Musial and Biggie's), is a bank director and has a piece of half a dozen other well-paying businesses...
...Stan Musial's & Biggie's Steak House in St. Louis, he strolls among the restaurant's potted palms every evening that he is free, smiling shyly at his guests. Even if the restaurant business should fail, he could always go back and become lord mayor of Donora, where special scoreboards keep the home-town faithful posted on every hit Stan Musial makes every...