Word: dams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bigger job, a $173 million hydroelectric installation. It was MK's share of the $500 million Nechako-Kitimat project of the Aluminum Co. of Canada, probably the biggest construction job ever attempted by private capital. To supply power for a new aluminum smelter, M-K had dammed a river to form a 120-mile-long reservoir, hollowed out a mountain to enclose a huge powerhouse five city blocks long, and drilled a ten-mile tunnel to carry the water to the turbines. At ultimate capacity, Alcan's powerhouse would be able to produce...
...make good. When he was 14, he got a vacation job as water boy for the Chicago construction firm of Bates & Rogers. Five years later, after two years of high school and a business-school course, he went to work full-time for Bates & Rogers in Idaho, building a dam and powerhouse on the Snake River. Iron-grey already streaked his sandy hair, but he hustled so hard that other men called him "that damned...
...heard that one of the contractors would make $100,000. "If that fellow can make $100,000," said Morrison, "I can make $1,000,000." With that, he marched up to a small contractor named Morris Knudsen, who owned a few horses and was building a road to the dam. Introducing himself, Morrison said: "I'd like to go into business with...
Crawling & Walking. For the next few years, M-K crawled, and after that, says Morrison, "it walked." In 1914, M-K made $14,000 on a $120,000 contract for Three-Mile Falls Dam on Oregon's Umatilla River. "Up to then," says Morrison, "I really had no idea that you could make money on a dam. But when we came out with more than 10%-what a lift!" The other great event of that year was his marriage to Anna Daly, who lived next door to Morrison's sister in Boise...
With his shiny new equipment, Morrison joined the big Utah Construction Co. in 1925 on a joint bid for the $2,300,000 Guernsey Dam in Wyoming, followed it up with another for Deadwood Dam in the mountains of central Idaho. The experience gave M-K the know-how to tackle the biggest of them all in 1931-the Arizona-Nevada giant Hoover Dam that was to rise 726 ft. above the Colorado River, generate power at the rate of 4 billion kw. a year. On Deadwood, M-K used some of the first bulldozers, began testing diesel trucks...