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Last week two big French organizations took just the sort of merger step that De Gaulle has been advocating. Pont-à-Mousson, France's second biggest private industrial company, with estimated 1965 sales of $1 billion, and the Compagnie Financière de Suez, one of the Continent's fastest growing investment trusts, with assets of some $200 million, decided to get together. Under a provisional agreement, Suez will assume a 20% stake in Pont-à-Mousson; in exchange, Pont-à-Mousson will get between 10% and 15% of Suez, the exact share yet to be negotiated...
...official notice of his death has just been received by his parents. Lieutenant Gardiner left College in 1916 and trained at Plattsburg, where he was commissioned in 1917. In September of that year he went overseas and was for a time stationed with his squadron near Pont a Mousson...
...served in the Vosges Mountains through the winter of 1915. For bravery in action during the intense attack by the Germans, lasting over a month, he was awarded the Croix de Guerre and promoted to sous-lieutenant. In this capacity he served at Malzeville, Verdun and Port-a-Mousson, distinguishing himself at all times by his executive ability and coolness under shell-fire. Last September, he returned to this country for the purpose of recruiting a new section of the Ambulance, which he subsequently did, getting 20 ambulances from the New York Stock Exchange. On his return to France...
...sector extending from Metzeral to the famous Hartmanswellerkopf, where it opened up to motor transport the hitherto inaccessible mountain "postes de secours." This new work was made possible by the use of Fords. During the same month the French asked for a new section to send to Pont-a-Mousson. Following this a section was detailed to Dunkirk. Gradually the number of sections has been increased to nine in the field, one of which is in Salonica, and the French army is so well satisfied with the work of the service that more sections are constantly in demand. These pictures...
...squad stationed at St. Pol until his resignation in the spring, and C. T. Lovering '02 succeeded Filley in command of a section that served in the north and then at Hospital "B" in Juilly. E. V. Salisbury '08 is in command of the section at Pont-a-Mousson...