| Show NEW MOVIE HEAD rev I 1 portrait of n H ia n cochrane former vice president of universal ale pictures corporation who succeeds carl laemmle as president the latter sold his interest in the company destructive velocities that sweep everything before them bridges houses and even fair sized buildings often become water borne batter battering ln rams to knock down other bridges bridge houses and buildings industries near river in tile the pittsburgh district in particular ti floods are dreaded because most of the important electric light water purifying and gas plants are crowded close to the rivers and essential services often break down when rising waters hood flood basements extinguishing boilers or crippling machinery nearly all the largest industries including steel tin plate and aluminum mills glass works packing fuel oil and coal storage plants have their properties on the river banks or very close to them shutdowns mean loss of employment and of 0 income to thousands of workers experience has taught the railroads to raise their rights of way higher than valley floors but in a few places they are low enough to be reached by such floods as that of recent occurrence in pioneer days the chief turnpikes of western pennsylvania syl vanla were built along the crest of ridges that mark the level of the original plateau but recently many important road roads have been built in tile the valleys sandwiched into a narrow ledge between railroads and steel plants or on slag flits at the very edge of the streams these fills have further narrowed narrowed tile the rivers and increased flood hazards while the newer residential districts of such cities as pittsburgh johnstown mer mckeesport McKee Zee sport homestead east pittsburgh braddock morgan town and cumberland are in the hills bills the business districts and the crowded older residential districts |
