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Also in high water were the Ouachita, Arkansas, upper Susquehanna, Chenango Rivers. Mules and field hands hiked quickly for higher ground. The cottonwood trees felt silt on their upper branches. The waters came in and rose to angry lifts. Their major attack was on the U.S. war industries...
Beauty prizes for the handsomest U.S. bridges built last year were distributed last week by the American Institute of Steel Construction, Inc. The prize for the loveliest bridge costing over $1,000,000 went to the Susquehanna River Bridge (see cut) between Havre de Grace and Perryville, Md. Winners in this class have often been spiderwebby suspension bridges, but no large suspension bridges were completed in the U.S. in 1940. In fact the only suspension bridge to win a prize was in the smallest class (under $250,000), the Klamath River Bridge at Orleans, in Humboldt County, Calif. Other winners...
...there is a trend away from suspension bridges, though one such U.S. bridge (Washington's Tacoma Narrows Bridge) buckled in a high wind last November, and last year's prizewinner (the feathery Bronx-Whitestone Bridge) has recently been equipped with diagonal stays to check its oscillations. The Susquehanna River Bridge, which won the big bridge prize this year, is a type of bridge using the relatively new Wichert Truss which needs less steel and spreads to take up extra stress when its piers settle in soft river bottoms. It was built at a cost...
...ground. Only 15 planes, some wings, fuselages, spare parts were saved. When he got back, he found his mechanics out on the field putting together a plane with one silver wing, one red one. Pocketing his $75,000 loss (virtually no insurance), he bought a fireproof brick building from Susquehanna Silk Mills in Lock Haven, Pa., 80 miles away, renamed his company Piper Aircraft Corp., and started over. His loss for the year was only $39,555, and in 1938 profits were $14,031. Last year he added a fireproof repair shop, 15 hangars, a shipping room, and profits zoomed...
...Philadelphian Jay Cooke, financier of the Civil War, was riding to ruin in the panic of 1873, J. P. Morgan walked cool and incisive, supremely confident of the future of America. At 32 he whipped Dan Drew, Jim Fisk and Jay Gould in their attempt to loot the Albany & Susquehanna R. R., saw its stock climb from $18 to $118 when he lifted the road out of receivership. It was his first real fight. Before gaudy Jim Fisk had left the Wall Street scene-murdered by the lover of one of his gewgaw women-Morgan was becoming...