Word: ponts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...eyes of all Paris were on Andre Louis Gody, a 17-foot Zouave who stands heroically in effigy beneath the Pont de 1'Alma, where Emperor Napoleon III put him nearly 100 years ago to honor a victory in the Crimea. When the river waters swirl around Gody's calves, Parisians know that the Seine is in flood. Last week the water reached well above Gody's elbows. As the floodwaters poured down into the city, raising the river crest to nearly seven meters above normal, all of Paris' quais were engulfed. The priceless works...
Louvre were taken upstairs to safety, three companies of firemen were kept busy pumping water out of the basement of ancient Notre-Dame, and police closed off the famed Pont des Invalides for fear its waterlogged arches might collapse. In the suburbs, thousands were evacuated from their homes. In Paris' 227 Roman Catholic churches, special prayers were said for favorable weather...
...about 70 scholarships a year for the sons and daughters of its employees, but also giving $500 annually to each private college or university the students happen to choose. The Gulf, Mobile & Ohio Railroad has given more than $185,000 since 1951 to private colleges along its route. Du Pont, a longtime giver, now pours $2,500 grants into the chemistry departments of 50 different campuses, expects to give in various ways $800,000 this year. The Radio Corp. of America will pay for 26 scholarships (at $800) this year, and last year Standard Oil Co. (New Jersey) spread...
...Pont will spend $800,000 on education in 1955-56: $75,000 will finance graduate study by high-school teachers of science and mathematics; the balance will go for advanced scientific training and research in more than 100 universities and colleges...
...volume hit 4,640,000 shares. General Motors, which only two days before had hit a new high of 107⅜ on rumors of a stock split, and then lost seven points when the rumor proved false,* dropped another 3⅝. General Electric lost two points, to 48; Du Pont was off 3⅛, to 167⅛. The Dow-Jones industrial average, which was at a new high at week's beginning, cracked 8.93 points...