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...keep the sheer face of Contractor's Hill from sliding into the vital Gaillard Cut (TIME, May 10) and blocking the Panama Canal, the Canal Co. called for emergency bidding on a contract for the removal of some 2,000,000 cu. yds. of the rocky hill. Seven contracting firms, among them Morrison-Knudsen, world's greatest earth mover, rushed engineers to the canal to study the great fissure splitting the hill. But it was the young and aggressive Tecon Corp. of Dallas that put in the winning offer, 15 minutes before the bidding closed last week...
...removed to make the canal safe, but official estimates ran as high as a total of 2,350,000 cu. yds. Tecon will probably collect around $3,391,000 for the job. To earn it, they will have to perform some tricky engineering feats, for the massive rock of Contractor's Hill lies atop the soft shale. Breaking it up will take at least 1,000,000 Ibs. of dynamite. If a careless or badly planned blast drops any of the rubble into the canal, the contractors will have to dredge it out at their own expense...
Steamfitters' local, tried to collect $50,000 from a contractor building a $5,000,000 pipeline. In another story Baldwin told how A.F.L. Hod Carriers' Boss Paul H. Hulahan was involved in a similar shakedown. He also dug up evidence that union "expense" money was often unaccounted for by union leaders. The zealous P-D kept firing away in Page One stories, backed up Reporter Baldwin with biting editorials and cartoons. Baldwin's notes and P-D stories were turned over to House and Senate labor committees, the FBI and the Justice Department...
...fissures, a foot or two in width, now trace an irregular line back of and parallel to the canal-fronting face of Contractor's Hill. Engineers guess that the cracks may run 600 ft. deep. Because it is hard, granite-like rock rather than the soft, clay-shale conglomerate of earlier slides, the face of Contractor's Hill will make a formidable dam if it falls...
...come. Probable next step: test borings to map the crevices exactly. In the end, it may be necessary to remove the threatening slab. This week two representatives of the Morrison-Knudsen construction company, world's greatest earth mover (TIME. May 3), flew down to have a look at Contractor's Hill...