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...five World War II years, Kiewit bossed or shared more than $300 million of Government contracts, ranging from Army camps in Washington, Colorado and Oregon to landing fields along the Alcan Highway. At war's end, when crapehang-ers were again crying Depression, Kiewit made his second decision to expand, since then has bought an armored division of modern equipment. His 1,000 trucks, 350 tractors and 80 power shovels, etc., have a replacement value of $20 million. He kept a big staff of specialists and workers, including more than 100 engineers under Vice President and Right-Hand...
...Kiewit himself is several times a millionaire. He hops from job to job in his personal DC-3, equipped with extra gas tanks for transocean flights. Kiewit is so busy that recently, when his pilot asked permission to paint the plane's nose, he refused because it would take 48 hours to dry. And the onetime invalid is now so hale that insurance companies long since canceled the penalty rates they used to charge...
Into the Mud. A quiet, grey-thatched man who looks more like a banker than an earth mover, Kiewit nevertheless knows how to slog into the mud, show his men what to do, get the most out of them. If he likes a job, he says: "I'm pleased but not satisfied." He has an unpretentious office on the tenth floor of the Omaha National Bank building, maintains twelve others from coast to coast, but is stubbornly publicity-shy. "We've done pretty well without it," he says laconically. He seldom takes a vacation, but sometimes, with...
...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...