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Project Manager Strandberg was responsible for ordering $25 million worth of heavy equipment on his own say-so. He built a network of 26 radio stations to link 25 work camps with shelters for 6,500 men, set up a mile-long aerial tramway to haul 20-ton loads to inaccessible work sites, established what was then the world's biggest helicopter supply fleet outside the U.S. military. When he had manpower and equipment troubles, a phone call to Boise straightened them out. "My top tunnel man," says Strandberg, "was shifted from a job in Afghanistan to my team...
...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, gas-powered revolving shovels, learned to haul equipment over mountains as high as 7,400 ft. on log roads. Even more important, MK's idea for joint ventures was a solution to the dam builders' growing financial problem: projects were so huge that few companies had the means or courage to tackle them since a single mistake might...
...board chairman. He has big ideas for the 1,800-mile line. He wants to pay off the remaining $4 a share of back dividends on preferred stock, then start paying dividends on the New Haven's 525,789 shares of common stock. He hopes to boost long-haul passenger traffic by faster trains, is toying with the idea of a low-slung aluminum train something like Spain's 120-m.p.h. Talgo express that could zip from New York to Boston in fewer than three hours. He plans faster, better service for commuters, thinks...
...Haven is a short-haul line through a densely populated area, with heavy commuter loads and relatively little freight. To make it pay, Dumaine has tried to chop down costs and at the same time modernize the road to attract business. Many of the big, barnlike stations of the '20s have been replaced by revenue-producing business blocks; Dumaine money built a $50 million marketing center in congested Boston near the South Station that draws some $200 million yearly in various businesses and fat contracts for the New Haven to haul the goods. At a cost of $70 million...
...intimate friendship. His Diaries record the "taming" of scores of little girls, a few of whom created the rare "whitestone" days in the life of the visionary mathematician. But he seems to have preferred quantity to quality. In 1877 he records and cites by name and nickname a record haul-35 tamed or half-tamed little girls in the course of one short summer holiday. He also records the most shocking blunder of his life-chastely kissing little "Atty" Owen, a "child" who turned out to be 17. "Mrs. Owen treats the matter quite seriously! She adds, 'We shall...