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...time Boulder Dam came along (1931), Frank had a reputation: he was the man who could read blueprints at a glance (or ignore them when necessary), the man who could build dams faster than anyone else. When Henry J. Kaiser's Six Companies got the Boulder Dam bid, Frank was the natural choice to boss...
Crowe finished Boulder 26 months ahead of schedule. The Shasta deadline is Jan. 6, 1945. Were it still abuilding after that date, Pacific Constructors would have to pay $2,000 for each day. But despite hell, high water and manpower shortages, Crowe intends to top off Shasta in November...
Despite the fact that he has built more dams than any other man in history, Frank Crowe is scarcely known outside his field. But in place of publicity, Crowe has made big money, which is rare for an engineer. The Boulder job paid him a salary of $18,000 a year plus 2½% of the profits (Crowe's take...
What makes Frank Crowe a master builder is his audacity of invention. He pioneered in using horizontal cables strung across river canyons to carry concrete from mixer to chutes into the dam. Without them, Boulder would have been almost impossible to build...
...Henry Topping," thought to be the 81 -year-old widow of an American missionary who went to Japan in 1895 and died there. She laments war per se in a quavering but clear voice. Mrs. Topping's son, Willard, of Boulder, Colo., denies that hers is his mother's voice...