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...years had France seen such rain. Farmers slogged stolidly out to their fields to harvest the sodden crops, mill the grain and send it on its way. In little (pop. 4,400) Pont-Saint-Esprit, perched on a bluff along the River Rhone in southern France, the townspeople sat glumly in their bistros sipping wine, watching the swollen river slip past the medieval bridge which gives the town its name...
Then, without warning, pain and sudden death clutched Pont-Saint-Esprit. On a Saturday night three weeks ago, the town's doctors began getting calls from people complaining of heartburn, stomach cramps and fever chills. At first, they thought it was a mild epidemic of meat poisoning. But the calls kept flooding in. By Monday, 70 houses in the village had become tiny hospitals, with most of their families in bed. Then the doctors found their first clue: every one of the patients had eaten bread from the shop of Baker Roch Briand. All eight of Pont-Saint-Esprit...
...When National Lead, the biggest U.S. supplier of titanium ore, suggested a partnership two years ago, Batcheller jumped at the chance. Their co-owned subsidiary, using Allegheny-Ludlum's mills, has already been processing small quantities of the metal. But total production-including that of E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co.-this year will be only 500 tons. And the average price ($21,000 a ton) is still stratospheric...
Married: May 24, 1928 to Goldye Stevens, widow of Commander Rodney H. Dobson, who went down with the submarine S-51 off the coast of Rhode Island in September 1925. Two children: a stepson, Rodney, 28 (Annapolis '44), now an engineer with Du Pont, and a daughter, Joan, 21, a Wellesley senior...
...chemical industry, where earnings of Du Pont, Victor Chemical and other companies were down, Dow Chemical was a standout. It boosted its net 25% to $41 million despite a 250% increase in the tax load...