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...Money, Just Guts." On a Boise River project in 1908, Morrison heard that one of the contractors would make $100,000. "If that fellow can make $100,000," said Morrison, "I can make $1,000,000." With that, he marched up to a small contractor named Morris Knudsen, who owned a few horses and was building a road to the dam. Introducing himself, Morrison said: "I'd like to go into business with...
Somewhat taken aback, Knudsen asked: "What do you have...
...March 1912, Morrison-Knudsen was formed as a partnership: Morrison, 23, had youth, ability, irrepressible ambition; Knudsen, 50, had maturity and know-how about horses, then the stand-by of all heavy construction...
Guernsey & Beyond. For young Harry Morrison, the machines opened up a new era. As the coughing, spitting machinery took over, the horses gradually disappeared. In 1939, Knudsen, tired and lost in the new technology, turned over M-K to Morrison. Four years later, he died...
Ambassadors at Work. Morrison-Knudsen leads them all. Last week an M-K crew was in the Brazilian jungle expanding the Cubatao hydroelectric project to give the city of São Paulo 400,000 more kilowatts of electric power. On the $20 million job, M-K men were boring a 3,500-ft. river-diversion tunnel, blasting a huge underground powerhouse from the bowels of a mountain. The air was blue with humidity; the sides of the cavern dripped water; every so often, a chunk of rock broke loose, came crashing down like a thunderbolt in a closet...