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...panorama of road builders stringing highways across the land reflects a peculiarly American genius, one that lies deep in the traditional pioneering instincts of the nation. No other country has come close to the U.S. in creating the mechanized giants of road building. "Road building," said one contractor, "is really the American art." Said the late Bernard DeVoto: "A highway is a true index of our culture. The machinery that builds it embodies developments in technology, invention, industrial progress, education, finance and so many other things that our whole cultural heritage has gone into producing...
Wheelbarrow to Millionaire. The magnitude of modern road building and the steadily rising cost of new equipment (up nearly 70% since 1947) have made it harder for the smaller contractor to survive. Says Talbot Bailey, vice president of Oakland's Fredrickson & Watson Construction Co.: "There used to be a time when you could just take a wheelbarrow and start out in this business-and work up to be a millionaire. Those days are gone forever. You need a lot of capital today." In the '30s a mile of concrete road could be laid...
...John Hopkins joined Electric Boat, predecessor of General Dynamics, as a director in 1937, engineered the acquisition of Canadair Ltd., a Canadian aircraft manufacturing company, and then took over major corporations-manufacturing everything from telephone equipment to airplanes-until he had made the new complex the seventh largest defense contractor to the U.S. Government...
Dirt for a Dossier. When a house built by a nonunion contractor (TIME, April 29) was dynamited in 1954, Murphy headlined his lead editorial: GET THE DYNAMITERS! He followed it up in the next ten weeks with eleven more editorials, pounding at local authorities to enlist county and state investigators for the man hunt. By last October, when a jury convicted four union leaders who had ordered the dynamiting, Murphy had racked up 27 editorials on the case, while the Times reporters had unearthed enough dirt to hand the McClellan committee a bulging dossier...
...182Hycon-Eastern was started two years ago in Boston by M.I.T. Professors J. R. Zacharias and J. B. Wiesner as a consultant firm in long-range microwave communications. Now Hycon-Eastern is a contractor as well, has a $14 million contract to build a complete radio, telephone and TV communications network for Libya, is surveying a similar job in Thailand, dickering for contracts in Iran and the French Cameroons. The company has a crystal lattice filter for radios that will handle much higher frequencies at one-thousandth the cost of previous crystal lattice filters, has also developed an electronic time...