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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cargill's architect of the unconventional, who turned the dreamy meadowlands into an up-to-the-minute shipyard (for around $1,000,000) is a practical doer named Chris Jensen, 46. He joined Cargill ten years ago in a characteristically Cargill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRODUCTION: The Farmer Goes to Sea | 9/13/1943 | See Source »

...erecting a Cargill office building in Omaha, Danish-accented Chris Jensen made so much profit on the job by his construction short cuts that Cargill hired him to put his tricks to work for them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRODUCTION: The Farmer Goes to Sea | 9/13/1943 | See Source »

...Tricks That Worked. His first job was building a Cargill dream: a frame-less, sheet-steel grain elevator shaped like a balloon. To keep the unsupported steel from collapsing when empty, Jensen built it on frames, pumped in compressed air, pulled out the frames, let the air pressure do their work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRODUCTION: The Farmer Goes to Sea | 9/13/1943 | See Source »

Provider. The will of Sea Captain William Jensen of Bayonne, N.J. provided $500 so that his friends might be "liberally supplied with liquid refreshments and a hot dance band...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 24, 1943 | 5/24/1943 | See Source »

...beginning! Once again there is an atmosphere of impending doom managing low over Briggs Hall and this time it ain't kiddin'! No paltry little Saturday exam hangs negligibly over our evell-crammed heads. No warm-up session with Ensign Rosalie Jensen, the successor of the noble J. A. Hancock, not yet with Quactham, the inconsequential c-4-D Storekeeper, has us in our present state of nerves this time it's the real thing, and we're not fooling either. By the time this goes to press some of us will know where the powers-that-be have seen...

Author: By Ensign ETHEL Greenfield, | Title: CREATING A RIPPLE | 3/26/1943 | See Source »

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