Word: bechtel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...vote in some states, drive cars, own property, work for a government agency or get licenses for certain businesses and professions. In San Francisco, Robert Anderson, 26, a college graduate, decided that it was best to lie about his prison record when he applied for a job at the Bechtel Corp. His employer discovered the truth. Although he was allowed to keep his $90-a-week job as an office boy, Anderson is now convinced that he will have an endless amount of trouble advancing above the level of "a flunky...
...late 1950s, Bechtel was invited by the Atomic Energy Commission to construct the first nuclear-power breeder reactor. Since that pioneering work in reactor design and construction, it has participated in 42 commercial nuclear projects, and is working on 20 more...
Zambia's lengthy lifeline is only one of 89 major Bechtel projects currently under way in 29 states and 34 foreign countries. Bechtel has boosted its busi ness by an impressive average of 20% a year for the past ten years, passed the $1 billion mark in new contracts in 1967, and confidently expects $1.4 billion worth this year...
Ships & Reactors. Those statistics mark a long reach from the spring of 1898, when a young teamster named Warren Bechtel hitched up a couple of mules and went into the "earthmoving" business in Oklahoma's Indian Territory. His knockabout enterprise prospered, and by the time of his death in 1933, "Dad" Bechtel was head of the combine building the Hoover Dam, the biggest construction project of its day. It was his son, Stephen Bechtel, who expanded the business into a worldwide engineering and construction organization that now employs some 8,500 technicians and engineers...
...Bechtel's biggest boost came with World War II, when the company built and operated the Calship and Marinship yards on the West Coast and turned out a total of 560 ships for the Allies. During that time, Bechtel was also gaining experience in oil-refinery engineering and pipeline construction, which paid off handsomely in postwar years. Since then, Bechtel engineers have been consistently busy. One of their earlier enterprises: laying a large part of the 1,100-mile trans-Arabian pipeline linking the Persian Gulf with the Mediterranean in 1947-50. One of their more recent tasks: building...