Word: knappen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Army Hands. The partnership had its beginnings in work with the U.S. Army Engineers. Founder of the firm, the late Theodore Knappen, was a West Pointer who worked as an engineer with the Army's flood-control project on Ohio's Muskingum River in 1935. Working with him were two other civilian engineers, Ernest Tippetts and Gerald McCarthy, who later joined his private firm with Robert Abbett. An ex-Army engineer, Brigadier General James H. Stratton, Knappen's West Point classmate, came in two years before Knappen's death in 1951. Their work is scattered...
Into the residence of Burma's Prime Minister Thakin Nu last week walked an American construction engineer with a plan to remake Burma. The engineer was ex-Colonel H. B. Pettit of Warrenton, Va., manager of southeast Asia for Manhattan's Knappen-Tippetts-Abbett-McCarthy, an engineering firm that is now planning and designing foreign-building projects in more countries (15) than any other U.S. firm. Two years ago Burma used $2,000,000 of Point Four aid plus $1,000,000 of its own to hire the engineers to study the Burmese economy and draft ways...
World's Work. Such vast projects are all in the day's work for Knappen-Tip-petts-Abbett-McCarthy. The firm spends $500,000 a year on travel alone, and each of its five partners travels an average of 75,000 to 100,000 miles. The firm employs 420 to 450 U.S. engineers at home & abroad plus another 200 foreign engineers. In the past five years alone it has engineered projects totaling more than $3 billion, half of them overseas. Right now it is working on close to $1 billion worth of new projects...