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...Japan. The Indian government, which has often been suspicious of private investment, last week gave approval for a plan to study the building of five fertilizer plants in India at a cost of $350 million, $200 million of which would be put up by San Francisco's Bechtel Corp. and a consortium of U.S. firms...
...award was given for the following prices: Francis Bowen price and Edwin Bechtel price...
...Francisco foundry owner. John McCone studied engineering at the University of California, hired himself out as a riveter after his graduation in 1922. By the time he was 32, McCone was executive vice president of Consolidated Steel Corp. Eight years later he left to form the engineering firm of Bechtel-McCone-Parsons, took on the added job of running the California Shipbuilding Corp. after the U.S. entered World War II. Starting from absolute scratch-its main yard was a swamp, and less than 1% of its 40,000 workers had shipbuilding experience-Calship turned out 467 cargo carriers and tankers...
...indictments against Jack under sections of the city charter prohibiting city officials from accepting favors from persons seeking or performing city business. Hogan also said that Jack, when first questioned officially about the apartment remodeling, had "concocted" a story that his wife, Almira, had paid Contractor-Painter Fred Bechtel out of her $100 weekly household allowance. "Prior to telling me this," Hogan said, "Mr. Jack had told Mr. Ungar that if he told me Mrs. Jack had made the payments . . . the investigation would be over because I would have so much confidence in what he said...
...Other members: J. P. Morgan & Co. Chairman Henry C. Alexander; National Cash Register Chairman Stanley C. Allyn; Bechtel Corp. President S. D. Bechtel; Standard Oil of Calif. Chairman R. G. Follis; Standard Oil (N.J.) Chairman Eugene Holman; General Electric Finance Committee Chairman Philip D. Reed; CBS President Frank Stanton; International Packers Ltd. Chairman A. Thomas Taylor...