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...They ripped out telephones and ransacked the front office. With about 20 other foreigners, apparently seized at random, the Jordanians were loaded into a truck that started off for the Ministry of Defense. Among those seized were three Californians: Robert Alcock, George S. Colley Jr., senior vice president of Bechtel Corp. of San Francisco, and Eugene Burns, former A.P. correspondent. The truck drove slowly through milling streets. In front of the ministry gates the truck was trapped by a stalled vehicle in front of it, and the mob attacked...
...Llewellyn, stayed with the company after a merger formed the Consolidated Steel Corp. in 1929, was executive vice president and director before his 32nd birthday. In 1937 he quit his job to set out on his own. First step: he helped organize the Los Angeles engineering firm of Bechtel-McCone Corp., which he headed. Second step: he married Idaho-born Rosemary Cooper. During World War II, Bechtel-McCone operated an Army Air Forces modification center for B-24s and B-29s. At the same time, McCone became president and director of the California Shipbuilding Corp., and wearing two hats, launched...
...Bechtel prize and the Bohemian Club award will not be given this year, Sargent Kennedy announced for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, which selected the prize winners...
...laborers at Joppa, kept the motorcade touring for two days around the plant. Then Bateman pulled out his pipefitters over squabbles about who should unload pipe from trucks. In 29 months, work on the Joppa plant was stopped more than 40 times. Ebasco fell so far behind that the Bechtel Corporation took over its contract (TIME, Oct. 4). The delays added $58 million to the cost of the plant...
...University of California graduate, Steve Bechtel started working summers in his father's construction firm. In 1931 the firm teamed up with other construction outfits to form the famed Six Companies that built Hoover Dam. After his father died in 1933, Steve Bechtel started branching out into a new construction field. He began laying pipelines, soon spotted the profits to be had from building power plants and oil refineries to keep pace with mushrooming demand. All a company had to do was tell Bechtel what it wanted and he would design and build...