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Where the huge shipyard stands today there was only a swamp when smart Stephen D. Bechtel and natty John A. McCone took it over in the fall of 1940. Their first job was driving 60,000 pilings into the mud (a world's record for one job), but that was easy enough after their experience with Henry Kaiser on Boulder Dam and the San Francisco Bay bridge. The real problem was finding and training 40,000 workmen, less than 1% of whom had ever worked in a shipyard before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHIPBUILDING: Speed on Terminal Island | 7/13/1942 | See Source »

...Bechtel & McCone like such back-patting, but they have bigger goals ahead. In the first six months of 1942, the U.S. built 228 ships and admitted 332 sinkings. So Bechtel & McCone are talking of more work, more expansion, faster production. They have plenty to work on: Calship has a backlog of 224 Liberty ships (worth about $350,000,000), almost seven times the 35 vessels the yard has delivered to date...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHIPBUILDING: Speed on Terminal Island | 7/13/1942 | See Source »

...Bechtel Prize in Philosophy of $100, awarded to a student in philosophy for the best essay on an approved subject, was won by Rulon S. Wells III, of Salt Lake City, Utah, a third-year graduate student, for an essay on the subject "Linguistic Particularism...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNIVERSITY ANNOUNCES PRIZE AWARDS | 6/25/1942 | See Source »

James G. Miller '37 of Lakewood, Ohio, won the Edwin DeT. Bechtel prize of $100 for the best philosophical essay submitted by graduates or undergraduates in Philosophy. Miller transferred from the University of Michigan...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THREE UNDERGRADUATES WIN CONTEST AWARDS | 5/4/1937 | See Source »

Donald W. Meiklejohn 3G of Berkeley, California, has been awarded the Edwin DeT. Bechtel Prize of $100 in the annual philosophical easy competition open to graduate students in Philosophy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bechtel Prize Award | 4/28/1936 | See Source »

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