Word: kiewit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unscanned air corridor across Greenland. In Washington last week, U.S. Army Engineers announced awards of $27 million in contracts to fill the Greenland gap with four DEW radar bases. A Danish firm will build bases on Greenland's east and west coasts. A U.S. firm, Peter Kiewit Sons Co., will build two inland stations with a new look: the main buildings will be raised and lowered by huge motor-operated jacks designed to keep the radar-topped structures 15 ft. above the snowdrifts. Like other DEW bases, the Greenland stations will be manned almost entirely by civilian technicians...
...vacation from the Kansas City (Mo.) Star, TIME'S Stringer Fred Kiewit, 35. checked in at TIME'S Chicago Bureau and went to work on reports that the nation's 248 major fraternal orders (125.861 chapters; assets: $10 billion), once the strongholds of U.S. good-fellowship and male society, have suffered a disheartening drop in prestige and attendance. Himself a sometime member of the Masons' DeMolay. Reporter Kiewit core-sampled the fraternal orders in the Midwest, from Elks to Moose to Knights of Pythias. Taking off from the hub of Chicago, TIME queried eight other stringers...
...Governor Shiv-3. ECA. ers. 27. To Masterbuilder Peter Kiewit went the second biggest single construction contract ever awarded, the $1.2 billion contract for: 1. Erecting the new uranium plant in southern Ohio...
...years ago, when Army Engineers asked Kiewit to take on one of its biggest projects to date-"Operation Bluejay," a $100-million-plus contract to build heavy-bomber airfields on Greenland and housing for 4,000 men-Kiewit turned down the hurry-up job. When the Engineers could get no one else to take it on, Kiewit finally agreed to tackle it. He formed a combine of his own choosing, headed up three other firms to do the job. The project is now well under...
When AEC drew up its list of prospective builders recently for the Ohio atom plant, Kiewit's name was one of a dozen or more recommended. But in weeding the list down, the AEC decided that ever-ready Kiewit was the only one with enough equipment and men at the ready to tackle the job immediately. Earth-Mover Kiewit was pleased, but not satisfied, when he won the second biggest contract in history...