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Into the residence of Burma's Prime Minister Thakin Nu last week walked an American construction engineer with a plan to remake Burma. The engineer was ex-Colonel H. B. Pettit of Warrenton, Va., manager of southeast Asia for Manhattan's Knappen-Tippetts-Abbett-McCarthy, an engineering firm that is now planning and designing foreign-building projects in more countries (15) than any other U.S. firm. Two years ago Burma used $2,000,000 of Point Four aid plus $1,000,000 of its own to hire the engineers to study the Burmese economy and draft ways...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUSINESS ABROAD: Global Engineers | 9/7/1953 | See Source »

World's Work. Such vast projects are all in the day's work for Knappen-Tip-petts-Abbett-McCarthy. The firm spends $500,000 a year on travel alone, and each of its five partners travels an average of 75,000 to 100,000 miles. The firm employs 420 to 450 U.S. engineers at home & abroad plus another 200 foreign engineers. In the past five years alone it has engineered projects totaling more than $3 billion, half of them overseas. Right now it is working on close to $1 billion worth of new projects...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUSINESS ABROAD: Global Engineers | 9/7/1953 | See Source »

Jayvee lineup--lw, Hemlen; c, McLaughlin, rw, Arnold; ld, Weld; rd, Coste; g, Lenkowski. Spares: Evarts, Fuller, Coolidge, Richardson, Abbot, Abbett, Washburn, Woods, Brock, Young...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fall; Five Upset, 60-38 | 3/10/1947 | See Source »

Harvard Spares: Key, Sears, Greeley, S., Moseley, Ayres, McKean, Coulter Tilghman, Abbett...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Skaters Outlast Fast Needham Club 7-4 at Arena | 3/4/1947 | See Source »

Monday's tilt with Arlington revealed unexpected power in the Freshman second-string line, which pulled the team up by its ankle wraps after a slow first period. Left wing Larry Ward, right wing Gid Loring, and center Haven Abbett were easily "the outstanding line on the ice," Coach Stan Priddy stated after the contest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Skaters Face Off With Cambridge, Wellesley Today | 2/5/1947 | See Source »

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