Word: bechtel
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...thick jungle and dusty scrubland, the line will carry gasoline, kerosene and diesel oil from the port of Dar es Salaam on the Indian Ocean to the copper belt of landlocked Zambia. It will stand as one more monument to the widely varied skills of San Francisco's Bechtel Corp., the largest engineering and construction firm in the world...
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...
...golf with him, and fly him back to his office the same day. Outside Washington, a developer is turning the Montgomery County (Md.) airport into an airpark, already has 170 aircraft based there. A golf-cart manufacturer is building beside the airstrip, and IBM, Fairchild Hiller, Sprague Electronics, Bechtel Corp., and the National Bureau of Standards are building nearby...
...just a drop in the bucket to thirsty cities such as New York, which daily consumes 1.25 billion gal. The governments of the U.S. and Israel are now jointly studying the possibility of building nuclear desalinization plants with daily outputs of 100 million gal. For the Los Angeles region, Bechtel Corp. has recently completed the first stage of a study calling for a two-reactor nuclear plant that theoretically, by 1972, could turn out 150 million gal. per day, at a cost...
...allergic to the sun, terrified of snakes and never met an elephant she couldn't do without, but Jenny Bell Bechtel came home from her first safari with big game under her belt and a blazing career...