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Bechtel's biggest boost came with World War II, when the company built and operated the Calship and Marinship yards on the West Coast and turned out a total of 560 ships for the Allies. During that time, Bechtel was also gaining experience in oil-refinery engineering and pipeline construction, which paid off handsomely in postwar years. Since then, Bechtel engineers have been consistently busy. One of their earlier enterprises: laying a large part of the 1,100-mile trans-Arabian pipeline linking the Persian Gulf with the Mediterranean in 1947-50. One of their more recent tasks: building...
...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 in four years. At Calship, McCone worked 15 hours a day, organized the yard on an assembly-line prefabrication basis, stepped up production to record levels by improving welding techniques. After the war, McCone turned from making ships to running them: the Joshua Hendy...
...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 himself into a 15-hour-a-day, seven-day-a-week schedule. At Calship, Engineer McCone found ways to set production goals higher than anyone thought possible, saw to it that they were met. Result: Calship produced 467 ships worth a billion dollars. Since World War II's end he has taken over and built up a onetime iron works into the Joshua Hendy Corp...
...John A. McCone, who helped write the Finletter report on U.S. air power. He is president of the Joshua Hendy Iron Works and the California Shipbuilding Corp. (Calship), which built Victory and Liberty ships (TIME, March...
...keep Hendy on the job. His family has been in the machinery business since 1860, and McCone himself spent 15 years working for Consolidated Steel Corp. He left in J937 to join the Six Companies. During the war, he normally put in seven 15-hour days a week running Calship along with Bechtel-McCone's B-29 outfitting plant in Birmingham, Ala. His tough formula: set production goals higher than anyone thought could be met, then make sure they were...