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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...
...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...
...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...
...business in 1937. Smart, mathematics-minded Cargill president, John H. MacMillan Jr., designed his own unconventional low-cost "articulated unit" barge vessel, that looked like four boxes hooked together with springs and cables. When old-line shipyards refused to have anything to do with such a crazy thing, Chris Jensen turned out the unit in an improvised shipyard beside the Cargill grain elevators in Albany, N.Y. Only grief it ever met was a storm on Lake Michigan, which sank it in 60 feet of water. Chris Jensen got a salvage crew together, yanked the 300-ft. link of barges...
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...