Word: calship
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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...